I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

Babbitt has attracted the ire of some environmentalists and Native American groups for his representation of the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort and its effort to expand the resort and use waste water to make artificial snow. Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27 1938) a Democrat served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987. Among his proposals was a national sales tax to remedy the then-record budget deficits piled up during the several past administrations.