Bruce Babbitt Quotes

• Tenemos que preservarlo y utilizarlo de forma sostenible. Y el uso a corto plazo de los recursos a costa de la destrucción del patrimonio a largo plazo de este país no es una política que podamos seguir.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Country, Long, Heritage

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

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• City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Cities, Space, Majority

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• 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 say: Our complete agenda is to be enacted into laws governing the entire society. Many different religious groups claim that authority, not only Catholics. A lot of different Protestant groups as well are stepping forward to say: Here is our agenda, it is a moral agenda, ergo it must be enacted into law. I think that the distinction between natural law and more ultimate kinds of doctrine is being lost.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Religious, Thinking, Catholic

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the distinction between natural law and revealed truth. Most of the philosophers of church and state expected that what was going to be advocated as the law of the land would be related to natural law. If you attempted to draw lines about certain general moral truths that were derivative of logic and reason, they would prove to be widely shared, and therefore suitable to be enacted into law on both the civic and religious sides.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Religious, Church, Logic

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Jobs, Practice, Ecosystems

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• I think it is important that religious leaders of all kinds consciously attempt to distinguish between issues of natural law on which there is consensus among Catholic, Protestant, and Jew and those issues on which there must be a greater degree of tolerance of other peoples' opinions and of the diversity that is characteristic of American society.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Religious, Thinking, Diversity

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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

  Justice, Fairness, Taxes

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Bueno, creo que dar vida a la Ley de Especies en Peligro, devolver esos lobos a Yellowstone, restaurar el salmón en los ríos del noroeste del Pacífico.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Breathing, Rivers

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• We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

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  Enemy, Oblivion

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• 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.

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  People, Century, Born

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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

  Thinking, Moral, Tradition

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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

  Couple, Hypnosis, Historical

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• 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

  Important, President, Statistics

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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

  Bruce Babbitt

  Eight, Years, Shapes

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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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

  Teaching, Catholic, Seven

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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

  Mistake, Thinking, Land

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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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

  Unemployment, Gone, Acres

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• 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.

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  God's Creation, Needs, Harmony

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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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

  Thinking, Justice, Proposal

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mirrors, Facts, Wilderness

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• Creo que la gente - que aboga por dar un paso atrás y leer esas encuestas de opinión pública en la portada de los periódicos de todo este país diciendo público apoya la restauración en la restauración de los Everglades, la protección de los parques y la creación de monumentos.

  Bruce Babbitt

  País, Pensamiento, Gente

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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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

  Thinking, Land, President

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• Me he opuesto abiertamente a los recortes en lo que yo llamaría los programas de ayuda a los más necesitados: Medicaid, cupones de alimentos y todo eso. Creo firmemente que los recortes propuestos son injustos, pero no estoy dispuesto a calificar de "pecador" a Ronald Reagan. Me parece que cuando se invoca el adjetivo "moral" hay que tener cuidado de distinguir lo que se quiere decir con ello.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Cutting, Moral

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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

  Responsibility, Thinking, Affirmation

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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