Stewart Udall Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.”

“In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.”

“The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.”

“Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.”

“Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.”

“Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.”

“The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.”

“The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.”

“I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.”

“Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.”