Mo Udall Quotes

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.

Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

We're all pretty individualistic.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

I am sorie God made me so comely.

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.

Wowers never speede well, that have a false harte.

That same manne, that renneth awaye,Maye again fight, an other daye.

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

It doesn't matter where she looks, there are always the beautiful imperfections of a marriage.

Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in.

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.