William Ruckelshaus
William Ruckelshaus
William Doyle Ruckelshausis an American attorney and former U.S. government official. He served as the first head of the Environmental Protection Agencyin 1970, was subsequently acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then Deputy Attorney General of the United States. During 1983 through 1985 he returned as EPA Administrator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth24 July 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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Why argue about things you can't prove?
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Washington's approach to salmon recovery is a national model. We were the first in the history of the federal Endangered Species Act to have local communities statewide write recovery plans and set priorities for saving salmon.
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There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.
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Why argue about things you can't prove? We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere. There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.
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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.
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No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
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The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
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We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
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I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.
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The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.