William Ruckelshaus Quotes

#1. No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

William Ruckelshaus

#2. Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.

William Ruckelshaus

#3. The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

William Ruckelshaus

#4. The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

William Ruckelshaus

#5. I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

William Ruckelshaus

#6. Why argue about things you can't prove?

William Ruckelshaus

#7. It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

William Ruckelshaus

#8. Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

William Ruckelshaus

#9. It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

William Ruckelshaus

#10. We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

William Ruckelshaus