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Former Governor Of Arizona Inspirational Quotes (16)

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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
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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.
Bruce Babbitt
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We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
Bruce Babbitt
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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 money away as in the way you disburse it.
Bruce Babbitt
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If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.
Bruce Babbitt
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City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
Bruce Babbitt
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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
Bruce Babbitt
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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 the Judeo-Christian tradition. I think that is roughly, not unerringly, the outline of what I would call natural law.There must be some moral values underlying any civilization that's my guide.
Bruce Babbitt
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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 great American historical process.
Bruce Babbitt
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We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
Bruce Babbitt
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The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
Bruce Babbitt
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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
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I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.
Bruce Babbitt
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I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.
Bruce Babbitt
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We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
George W. P. Hunt
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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.
Bruce Babbitt