Utah Phillips

"I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to unders…"

"I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time."

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."

"We, the American People, are enormously wealthy. You know that? Who owns all of those trees in the national forests? We do! Who owns all of that off-shore oil you read about in the newspaper, huh? We …"

"Talking to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator... You know, the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything that isn't built into it... And I'm not going to talk t…"

"As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America…."

"You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a cle…"

"But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ult…"