American - Politician | January 31, 1920 - March 20, 2010
It gives me satisfaction to help people.
Stewart Udall
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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'
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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
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Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.
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The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
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Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
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Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
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I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
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Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.
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I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.
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The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
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