Protect The Environment Quotes

• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

  Stewart Udall

  Nature, Men, Air

  Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”

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• You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Empowering, Helping

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

  Gale Norton

  Government, Environmental, Regulation

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• I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

  Wangari Maathai

  Environment, Protect, Governance

  "Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Law, Broken

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• I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Parent, Shapes

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

  Gale Norton

  Thinking, Needs, Today

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• The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

  Lily Cole

  Priorities, Important, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

  Zell Miller

  Military, Government, Years

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• If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

  Dick Durbin

  Children, Law, America

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.

  Christy Clark

  Children, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  Charles Bowden

  Liars, Army, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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• We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values

  Steve Forbes

  Government, Hands, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Oct 31, 2015

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• The people that hunt are the guys that really vehemently protect the environment. You find that people that live on ranches tend to want to keep it that way, and I've always loved that about the hunters that I've known. They eat what they kill, and they carry it out. They don't shoot for sport.

  Tim Allen

  Sports, People, Guy

  "Tim Allen Talks Last Man Standing, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the Toy Story Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 03, 2012.

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• The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

  David Bergland

  Government, Environmental, Facts

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• Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Fighting, Justice, Champion

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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• You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Agriculture, People, Majority

  "Listen to the Young, Says Queen". news.bbc.co.uk. November 23, 2007.

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• Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down to the smallest detail Protects the environment Good design is as little design as possible.

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Giving, Design

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• The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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