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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Front Page
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
- Nov 07, 2020
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Monuments
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020