I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I … - Bruce Babbitt

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When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

Bruce Babbitt

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

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I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

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