Environment Quotes

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

~ Barry Commoner

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

~ Dennis Weaver

If we're going to pass international trade agreements, as we should, they should have similar kind of rules, not as high a wage as obviously as a steelworker in the U.S. or in Lorain, Ohio, but certainly rules on the environment and worker safety. You go to Mexico, you don't see those kinds of worker protections or environmental safeguards.

~ Sherrod Brown

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

~ Craig Venter

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

~ Douglas Brinkley

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

~ Fred Upton

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

~ Danny Glover

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

~ Brian Mulroney

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

~ Alexandra Paul

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

~ Jim Clyburn

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

~ Gale Norton

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

~ Samuel Wilson

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

~ Ike Skelton

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

~ Simon Mainwaring

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.

~ Simon Mainwaring

When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.

~ Robert Zoellick

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

~ Anthony Eden

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

~ B. F. Skinner