Quotes About Resources

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

You need help, and that's what books are for.

When there is abundance of fish, we need help to pull the nets.

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.