Clean Air Quotes

• We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

  Lee Iacocca

  Funny, Stupid, Ignorance

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• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  Lillian Russell

  Nature, Science, Blow

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• 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

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• Without regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water.

  Barack Obama

  Air, Should Have, Water

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Environment, Share

  Thomas L. Friedman (2008). “Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, and how we can renew our global future”, Lane, Allen

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• Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

  George H. W. Bush

  Air, Environmental, Example

  Remarks Announcing Proposed Legislation to Amend the Clean Air Act, June 12, 1989.

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• Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Air, Cities, People

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• Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

  Thomas Carper

  Fall, Responsibility, Air

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• Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Air, Breathing

  "Negroponte: Internet is way to world peace". www.cnn.com. November 25, 1997.

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• I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

  Carrie Nation

  Women, Memorable, Air

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• I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.

  Ronald Reagan

  Air, Dictator, Clean

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• We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

  Fred Thompson

  Real, Political Differences, Air

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• You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Country, Responsibility, Air

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• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

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• 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

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• Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

  Carol Browner

  Air, Water, Cleanliness

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• Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

  William McDonough

  Air, Water, Goal

  "God Is Green: Why ‘Less Bad’ Is Not Good" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.

  Alex Steffen

  Animal, Race, Air

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  Sam Wyly

  Air, Goal, Energy

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• I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

  Frances Beinecke

  Believe, Thinking, Air

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• People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.

  Van Jones

  Dirty, Air, Blue

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

  Gina McCarthy

  Air, Years, Law

  "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.

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• Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Thinking, Air, Water

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• Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.

  Joseph Sittler

  Sea, Air, Hands

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• As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

  Jacque Fresco

  Air, Self, Water

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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