Udall Quotes & Sayings

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined. — Mo Udall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world. — Brady Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. — Stewart Udall

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

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. — Mo Udall

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

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

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

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

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

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. — Stewart Udall

Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch. — Tor Udall

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

Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him. — Brady Udall

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. — Mo Udall

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar. — Brady Udall

It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families. — Mark Udall

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

It gives me satisfaction to help people. — Stewart Udall

The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation. — Stewart Udall

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

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. — Stewart Udall

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress. — Mark Udall

I am sorie God made me so comely. — Nicholas Udall

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele. — Nicholas Udall

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

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

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

There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake. — Stewart Udall

Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination. — Brady Udall

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

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. — Mark Udall

He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful. — Tor Udall

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

I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land. — Mo Udall

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

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

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

She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an idea, or a miscarried love. — Tor Udall

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. — Mark Udall

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation. — Tom Udall

I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened. — Mo Udall

I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. — Mo Udall

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest — Stewart Udall

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

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe. — Tom Udall

Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise ... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever. — Mo Udall

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

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.' — Mark Udall

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule. — Stewart Udall

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

Let's turn inflation over to the post office. That'll slow it down. — Mo Udall

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

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. — Stewart Udall

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. — Mark Udall

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

It is a movement and a rest, you and I. — Tor Udall

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one. — Mark Udall

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

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. — Mo Udall

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

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

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

They talked in the supermarket, the butcher's and the post office of how they had watched a child collecting twigs, or was it flowers...? How they had noticed the sky, what a blue sky there was that day. Chloe remembers her walking through the trees, the branches growing bigger until she couldn't see her any more. A child had been lost and Kew would never be the same. — Tor Udall

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster. — Stewart Udall

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. — Mark Udall

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. — Mark Udall

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that. — Stewart Udall

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

The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect. — Tor Udall

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

Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification. — Tom Udall

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good. — Stewart Udall

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my had. As formative events go, nothing else comes close; my careening, zigzag existence, my wounded brain and faith in God, my collisions with joy and affliction, all of it has come, in one way or another, out of that moment on a summer morning when the left rear tire of a United States postal jeep ground my tiny head into the hot gravel of the San Carlos Apache Indian reservation. — Brady Udall

I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy busyness of worms in the soil. — Tor Udall

Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997) — Jack Nicholson

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

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. — Stewart Udall

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

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004. — Mark Udall

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

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

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. — Tom Udall

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

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

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

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans. — Tom Udall

For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure. — Brady Udall

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

For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words. — Stewart Udall