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1. "I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist." ~ Bruce Babbitt
2. "It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged." ~ Bruce Babbitt
3. "The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago." ~ Bruce Babbitt
4. "Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict." ~ Bruce Babbitt
5. "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
6. "We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully." ~ Bruce Babbitt
7. "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
8. "What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West." ~ Bruce Babbitt
9. "What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two." ~ Bruce Babbitt
10. "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
11. "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
12. "Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress." ~ Bruce Babbitt
13. "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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good."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
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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
17. "This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it." ~ Bruce Babbitt
18. "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
19. "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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