Gale Norton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Heart #My Heart #Conservation

“Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Innovation #Helping #Environment

“We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Country #Air #Quality

“We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : "Interior Secretary Gale Norton". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2005.

#Energy #India #Economy

“I started out as a Democrat.”
-- Gale Norton

#Democrat

“Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Animal #People #Bird

“I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Believe #Fighting #Needs

“Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?”
-- Gale Norton

#Government #Regulation #Way

“Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.”
-- Gale Norton

#Growing Up #Mountain #Colorado

“My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.”
-- Gale Norton

#Crazy #Schedules #Facts

“In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.”
-- Gale Norton

#People #Effort #Labels

“I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Thinking #Challenges #Trying

“I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.”
-- Gale Norton

#Thinking #Needs #Today

“I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Air #Years #Pollution

“Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.”
-- Gale Norton

Source : "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

#Long #Natural #Resources

“Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.”
-- Gale Norton

#Hunting #America #Dating

“I was a little too young to be a hippie.”
-- Gale Norton

#Hippie #Littles #Young

“Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.”
-- Gale Norton

#Cancer #Needs #Forests