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
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We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can't abandon this program. What we've got to do instead is to correct the mistakes,
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We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
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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.
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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.
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I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.
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City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
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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.
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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.
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With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the curve.
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I think it represents a spirit of hope for California to find a better balance between agriculture, recreation and the environment,
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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,
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I think what he will be remembered for most in history is the way he connected with regular people and brought the mystery and beauty of oceans into our personal lives,
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You can't spawn your way over a concrete dam,
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Mistakes were made, ... You don't prosecute people for making mistakes.