What we’ve proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I’m going to get out of this town and I’m going to go out West. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
Well, it’s not a pleasant experience. And it’s a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
We’ve set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital… with God’s creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
This isn’t just about today, this about generations to come. And you’ve got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he’s done it. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it’s time for special counsel. Bruce Babbitt Read Quote
