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Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
Bruce Babbitt
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Born:
June 27
, 1938
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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
Life
Think
Back
Wolves
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
People
Step
Think
Opinion
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
Bruce Babbitt
Educated
Land
Up
West
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
Work
Walk
Together
Think
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
Bruce Babbitt
Wilderness
Living
Like
Fact
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
Age
Look
Go
Back
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
Work
Opportunity
Chance
Country
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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.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
Good
Time
Government
Look
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
Bruce Babbitt
Experience
You
True
Your
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
Experience
Believe
Important
Three
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
You
Think
Monuments
Know
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
Bruce Babbitt
Better
Years
Shape
Than
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
Bruce Babbitt
Me
Forest
Tension
Say
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.
Bruce Babbitt
Time
You
End
Nothing
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