Crucible Quotes

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

Biography

Author Profession: Politician

Nationality: American

Born: June 27, 1938

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Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Patrick Henry, Hubert H. Humphrey, Mitt Romney, Barry Goldwater

Topics

Always, Been, Conflict, Crucible, Job, Look

Quotes to Explore

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. Bruce Babbitt

Country, Pursue, Use

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. Bruce Babbitt

Living, Mirrors, Fact

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

Country, I Think, Monuments

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

Doing, Kind, Spent

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. Bruce Babbitt

Land, Educated, West

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

Financial, Going, Some

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

Chance, Country, Over

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

I Think, Everybody, About

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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.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

I Think, Other, By The Time

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience. Bruce Babbitt

Own, Through, Pleasant

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

Believe, Been, Obviously

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

Think, I Think, Protecting

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago. Bruce Babbitt

Better, Shape, Years Ago

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

Forest, Here, Cut

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