Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by James G. Watt

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.

James Gaius Watt is a public servant who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983. He has been described as "anti-environmentalist", and was one of Ronald Reagan's most controversial cabinet appointments. Watt's pro-development views played an instrumental role in ending the Sagebrush Rebellion.

Politician | Born: January 31, 1938

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Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

James G. Watt

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

James G. Watt

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

James G. Watt

In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

James G. Watt

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

James G. Watt

Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

James G. Watt

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by James G. Watt

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