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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, too, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about earth, contentment

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about nation, people, human imperfections, good, good luck

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about burden, absolute, country, world, people

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and...

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, public, creation, opinion, country, people

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, work

What we've proven is that you can protect the...

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about nature, economy, conflict, use, contentment

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own...

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Quote by John Abizaid about experience, things, time

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about press, law, public, rightness

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about principle, bad luck, bad, things, good, good luck

The principle though remains the same, and the important...

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about principle, fight, things

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about principle, chance, law, state, good, good luck

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to...

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Quote by Dean Acheson about writers

No people in history have ever survived who thought they...

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Quote by Dean Acheson about liberty, enemies, history, thinking, people

The governor of California, Pete Wilson, recently signed a bill offering protection to diseased and crippled farm animals. We worked very hard to get this act, the first of its kind in the country

Quote by Kim Basinger about bills, animals, country

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Quote by Warren Beatty about wealth, money, people

Any government that supports, protects or harbours...

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Quote by George W. Bush about criminals

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans, weakness, tragedy, duty, faith, world, people

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of...

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Quote by George W. Bush about homeland, country

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It...

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to...

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

Quote by Glenn Close about actors

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