We have to preserve it and ... by Bruce Babbitt, an American Politician

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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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Name: Bruce Babbitt

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jun 27, 1938

Profession: Politician

Malcolm Wallop Annette Lu Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

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No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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