Bill Bennett: “I found myself in 1991 contemplating a return to the political arena for the first time as a candidate for a serious…”

“I found myself in 1991 contemplating a return to the political arena for the first time as a candidate for a serious office. I discovered in the 18-year hiatus since I had been gone that there were a number of issues I had not paid any attention to which were burning issues in the political arena of that time. One of them was clearly the question of the environment and the use of public lands. In Utah, we have a tremendous number of public lands. Indeed, two-thirds of our State is owned by the Federal Government, and a large percentage of that which is owned by the State government is given over to State parks and other State land uses.”