Richard M. Nixon Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Land, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.12, Best Books on

• We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Water, Environmental

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970".

• We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Strong, Air

• Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Space, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on

• The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Destiny, Air

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

• The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Past, Air, Years

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.2, Best Books on

• Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fighting, Fire, Land

  Interview with C. L. Sulzberger, The New York Times (p. 14), March 8, 1971.

• I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Football, Boys, Games

• We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Past, Thinking, Air

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on

• The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Ocean, Water, Environmental

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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