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

James G. Watt

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.”

James G. Watt

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

“That is the delicate balance the Secretary of the Interior must have: to be steward for the natural resources for this generation as well as future generations. I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns; whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations.”

James G. Watt

Testimony before the House Interior Committee (5 February 1981)
1980s

“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

U.S. News and World Report (11 November 1985)
1980s

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

James G. Watt

The Washington Post (24 May 1981)
1980s

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

James G. Watt

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.”

James G. Watt

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