Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbittis an American politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Babbitt served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 through 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 June 1938
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
country thinking people
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.
thinking land president
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.
gods-creation needs harmony
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.
gone acres forests
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
mistake thinking land
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
people born century
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.
jobs practice ecosystems
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.
cities space green
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
mean reality government
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
country long heritage
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.
christmas delivering gift mining season spirit
In the spirit of the Christmas season I'm delivering a gift to the mining industry,
acres agencies burning forest land management million prescribed recent service year
In recent years the Forest Service and land management agencies have been burning about 2 to 2 1/2 million acres a year with prescribed fires,
america cities land vision
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America.
campaign decision interior personal relationship secretary
Campaign contributions should have nothing to do with a decision like this and they didn't. A personal relationship with the secretary of the Interior should have nothing to do with a decision like this and it didn't,