Quotes About Environment

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.