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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.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 aislecasecongress share on social
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 ageagoback Change image and share on social
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. Bruce Babbitt educategeologistgrow Change image and share on social
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience. Bruce Babbitt billexperiencekid Change image and share on social
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 conflictgenerationinvolve share on social
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 adversarycongressexperience Change image and share on social
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 agoexperienceimportant Change image and share on social
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 congressdisputeearly Change image and share on social
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 basicclearcut Change image and share on social
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 handimportantkind share on social
