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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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Three
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
- Bruce Babbitt
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Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
- Bruce Babbitt
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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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Government
#Law
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#Time
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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Together
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I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
- Bruce Babbitt
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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
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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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Land
#Monuments
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#Think
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
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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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Back
#Endangered Species
#Life
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Like
#Living
#Wilderness
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.
- Bruce Babbitt
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#Country
#Opportunity
#Over
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