Quotes by Stewart Udall

About Stewart Udall:

Stewart Lee Udall was an American politician and later, a federal government official. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.

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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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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made ...

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Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

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Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

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I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

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There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

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I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

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It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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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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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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I don't like the term 'dynasty.'

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Author Bio

  • NameStewart Udall
  • DescriptionAmerican Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior
  • BornJanuary 31, 1920
  • DiedMarch 20, 2010
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer