Bruce Babbitt Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.”

“Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.”

“I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.”

“Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.”

“We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.”

“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.”

“There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.”

“I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.”

“The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.”