Well, What I Tried To Do Is Simply To Get Out On The Land. And When I Came To Washington, I Think One Of The Mistakes We Made Early On Was Kind Of Having An Ideological Dispute Up In The Congress. - SearchQuotes

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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Bruce Babbitt

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