"We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important."

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Source : "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

Bruce Babbitt

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“People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.”
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
“When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.”
“Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.”
“Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.”
“[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.”
“I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.”
“SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.”

Source : Mark Akenside, “Hymn To Science”

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