Gale Norton Quotes

• I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cooperative, Conservation

• We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservation, Partnerships

• The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Developers

• I started out as a Democrat.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Democrat

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

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  Topics in Management

  Tags in Predators, Agency

• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Energy

• I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

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  Topics in Challenge

• We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Countries

• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It’s a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Predators, Consensus

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Young

• Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Responsibility

• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economic, Activity

• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can’t fit hikes in my schedule.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy, Fact

• In Washington, there’s always an effort to label people.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in People, Washington

• What’s near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cooperative, Conservation

• Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Beings, Natural, Resources

• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Institute, Research, Pollution, Control

• Growing up in Denver, I’m sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mountains

• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

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  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

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  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental

Gale Norton (20)

Birth:	11th March, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Gale Ann Norton was born in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She is an American politician and lawyer. She served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Denver in 1975, and earned her juris doctor degree with honors from that university's College of Law in 1978. From 1991 to 1999, she  served as Attorney General of Colorado.

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