Quotes About Impact

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution.

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

We had this incredible pass over the Himalayas, and to just see all of that pollution that's riding up against those mountains from the south is just really heartbreaking.

The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.

Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world.

Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.

When you see that charger in the wall, you have to now say okay that's, that's contributing to global-warming pollution, I have to pull that charger out of the wall.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

Poor people can't cut their emissions - they don't make them.

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.