Frasi di James G. Watt

James Gaius Watt è un politico statunitense, segretario degli Interni degli Stati Uniti sotto il presidente Ronald Reagan dal 1981 al 1983.

Nel 1983 fu costretto a dimettersi dalla lobby ambientalista, che lo accusava di non preoccuparsi della tutela ambientale perché, essendo affiliato alle Assemblee pentecostali di Dio, ritiene che il secondo Avvento di Cristo e la fine del mondo siano ormai imminenti. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Gennaio 1938
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James G. Watt: Frasi in inglese

“God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.”

Attributed in Setting the Captives Free (1990) by Austin Miles, and widely repeated after appearing in "The Godly Must Be Crazy", by Glenn Scherer in Grist magazine (28 October 2004) http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2004/10/27/scherer-christian/index.html. Grist afterwards retracted and apologized for Scherer's comment, noting that the quotation appears nowhere in Watt's Congressional testimony or any other source it could find. Watt has responded:
: I never said it. Never believed it. Never even thought it. I know no Christian who believes or preaches such error. The Bible commands conservation — that we as Christians be careful stewards of the land and resources entrusted to us by the Creator.
Misattributed

“We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber.”

As quoted in Media Transparency http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=1082
1980s

“We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”

Speaking before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983, in reference to members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing
1980s

“I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It's liberals and Americans.”

Statement of November 1981, quoted in New York Times (10 October 1983), also quoted in Energy and Environment : The Unfinished Business (1986) by Congressional Quarterly, Inc., p. 91
1980s

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