Stewart Udall Quotes

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Stewart Udall

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 31, 1920

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

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Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

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It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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

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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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Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

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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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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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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

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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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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

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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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I don't like the term 'dynasty.'

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