Top 100 Udall Quotes
#1. Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
Jack Germond
#2. Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.
Louis Bacon
#3. Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997)
Jack Nicholson
#4. Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in.
Tor Udall
#6. Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life ... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.
Mark Udall
#7. 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.
Tom Udall
#8. The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
Stewart Udall
#9. Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.
Mark Udall
#10. Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.
Stewart Udall
#11. I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.
Mo Udall
#12. It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.
Tom Udall
#13. President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
Mark Udall
#14. The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.
Tor Udall
#15. As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.
Tom Udall
#16. One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
Stewart Udall
#17. Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart Udall
#18. There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian wouldn't tattle to save his own mother. Indians, over the years, have learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.
Brady Udall
#19. Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
Stewart Udall
#20. It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.
Tom Udall
#21. I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
Stewart Udall
#22. Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Stewart Udall
#23. Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.
Nicholas Udall
#24. In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.
Stewart Udall
#25. Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.
Stewart Udall
#26. Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
Mark Udall
#27. Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
Brady Udall
#28. We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.
Mark Udall
#30. Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
Tom Udall
#32. There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.
Mark Udall
#33. I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'
Stewart Udall
#34. Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.
Stewart Udall
#35. Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
Mark Udall
#36. Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
Stewart Udall
#37. A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.
Tor Udall
#38. There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.
Mark Udall
#39. 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.
Stewart Udall
#40. In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.
Charles Udall
#41. It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.
Tom Udall
#42. 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.
Tom Udall
#43. Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch.
Tor Udall
#44. Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'
Stewart Udall
#45. The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
Stewart Udall
#46. In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
Stewart Udall
#48. I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
Mark Udall
#49. Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
Tom Udall
#50. Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.
Mark Udall
#51. It doesn't matter where she looks, there are always the beautiful imperfections of a marriage.
Tor Udall
#52. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall
#53. For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
Mo Udall
#54. We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.
Mark Udall
#55. It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.
Mark Udall
#56. I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
Stewart Udall
#57. 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.
Mark Udall
#58. The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
Stewart Udall
#59. Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
Mark Udall
#60. There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.
Nicholas Udall
#61. I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
Stewart Udall
#62. She can't believe she is going to compose her first love letter. She can hardly bear the exposure as if her body is a photographic film spooling into sunlight and everything is too bright, too vulnerable, the moments in the film now lost for ever.
Tor Udall
#63. It is a movement and a rest, you and I.
Tor Udall
#64. Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
Mo Udall
#65. 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.
Mark Udall
#66. The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
Mark Udall
#67. One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
Mo Udall
#68. If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
Stewart Udall
#69. If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
Mo Udall
#71. There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.
Stewart Udall
#72. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.
Nicholas Udall
#74. That same manne, that renneth awaye,Maye again fight, an other daye.
Nicholas Udall
#75. Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall
#76. Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.
Stewart Udall
#77. I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.
Mark Udall
#78. The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.
Tom Udall
#79. I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.
Tom Udall
#80. The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
Stewart Udall
#81. Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
Stewart Udall
#82. Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.
Mark Udall
#83. Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.
Mo Udall
#84. The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Stewart Udall
#85. Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.
Brady Udall
#86. Chloe takes a mental snapshot, as if one day she will paint him. It will be a day's work getting to know his body.
Tor Udall
#87. Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security.
Tom Udall
#88. Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
Stewart Udall
#89. Golden would find himself thinking that if he ever became delusional or foolhardy enough to outfit one of his houses with a complaint box, it would need to be about the size of a refrigerator.
Brady Udall
#90. While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
Mark Udall
#91. Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
Stewart Udall
#92. The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
Stewart Udall
#93. They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.
Tom Udall
#94. A land ethic for tomorrow should ... stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
Stewart Udall
#95. For Golden it was hard not to think that there might be something wrong about a household in which the dog was wearing underwear and the children weren't.
Brady Udall
#96. The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Mo Udall
#97. I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.
Mark Udall
#98. The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.
Mark Udall
#99. If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
Stewart Udall
#100. Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.
Tom Udall
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