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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.


So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.


Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.


I don't like the term 'dynasty.'


I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.


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


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


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


It gives me satisfaction to help people.


Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.


Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.


Washington's a cesspool of money.


Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.