68 Quotes by Bruce Babbitt

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.