William Ruckelshaus
William Ruckelshaus
William Doyle Ruckelshausis an American attorney and former U.S. government official. He served as the first head of the Environmental Protection Agencyin 1970, was subsequently acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then Deputy Attorney General of the United States. During 1983 through 1985 he returned as EPA Administrator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth24 July 1932
CountryUnited States of America
William Ruckelshaus quotes about
kinds ought taking
There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.
fashion atmosphere incentives
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
winning way argument
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
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Why argue about things you can't prove?
should-have feminist should
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
school should-have white
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.
nature lunch pollution-control
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
effort enthusiasm sound
It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
attitude business choices
Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.
family block building
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
father men my-best-friend
I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.
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Why argue about things you can't prove? We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere. There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.
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Washington's approach to salmon recovery is a national model. We were the first in the history of the federal Endangered Species Act to have local communities statewide write recovery plans and set priorities for saving salmon.