“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

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