William Ruckelshaus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Lunch #Environment #Appetite
It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Effort #Enthusiasm #Sound
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Country #Responsibility #Air
Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Business #Attitude #Choices
I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Father #Men #My Best Friend
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Family #Block #Building
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Feminist #Should
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Fashion #Atmosphere #Incentives
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Winning #Way #Argument
Why argue about things you can't prove?
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Arguing #Prove
Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#Mother #Children #Home
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.
-- William Ruckelshaus

#School #White #Dancing

You may also like:

Archibald Cox
Former United States Solicitor General
Bill Bradley
Former U.S. Senator
Carol Browner
Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Chris Christie
Governor of New Jersey
Christine Todd Whitman
Former Governor of New Jersey
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
H. R. Haldeman
Former White House Chief of Staff
James McGreevey
Former Governor of New Jersey
John Dean
Former White House Counsel
John Ehrlichman
Counsel
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
John N. Mitchell
Attorney
Jon Corzine
Former United States Senator
Leon Jaworski
Special prosecutor
Naveen Jain
Entrepreneur
Richard M. Nixon
37th U.S. President
Robert Bork
Former United States Solicitor General
Russell E. Train
Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Spiro T. Agnew
Former Vice President of the United States
Steven Milloy