I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other." It is basically an affirmation of my ultimate responsibility to obey my conscience in my acts as a public official.
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs. - Bruce Babbitt
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.
- Bruce Babbitt
Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take… - Bruce Babbitt
Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take…
Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in … - Bruce Babbitt
Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in …
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pa… - Bruce Babbitt
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pa…
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. - Bruce Babbitt
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.
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to… - Bruce Babbitt
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to…
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a g… - Bruce Babbitt
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a g…
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 no… - Bruce Babbitt
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 no…
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago. - Bruce Babbitt
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
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