Governor Bruce Babbitt made his Statement of Candidacy on March 10-12, 1987 in Manchester/Des Moines/Atlanta/Phoenix.
"I began where we all began: with the town where I grew up, and the values I learned there, and the people and places I’ve known across the years. My roots are in the canyon country of northern Arizona, a land staked out and settled by my grandparents when they pushed west from Ohio a hundred years ago.
I come from a family of ranchers and frontier merchants. They helped build schools and towns in the wilderness and they lived by simple truths. You work hard. You do what’s right. You stand up for the things you believe in.
That is what I take from the Arizona."
