Bruce Babbitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.”

“No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.”

“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.”

“I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.”

“I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.”

“I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.”

“Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.”