Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

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

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.