Dixy Lee Ray Quotes

• I have confidence in people’s basic common sense.

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• Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

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• We shouldn’t accept things just because somebody says so.

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• We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

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• They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being – a birth, a life span, and a death.

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• There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

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• The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

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• The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

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• The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

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• Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it’s buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

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• No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

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• It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever – blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

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• It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don’t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

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• I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters’ credentials, so we could witness the events.

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• I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

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• I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

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• He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

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• The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

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• Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

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Dixy Lee Ray (19)

Birth:	3rd September, 1914
Death:	2nd January, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Professor, Scientist

About

Dixy Lee Ray was born in Tacoma, Washington. She was an American marine biologist and politician. She was the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington. A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in biology, Ray became an associate professor at the University of Washington in 1957. She was chief scientist aboard the schooner SS Te Vega during the International Indian Ocean Expedition.

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