Richard Nixon Quotes

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

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

China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

Pollution doesn't respect state boundaries and it is difficult if not impossible to solve these problems on a state by state basis.

I resent the idea that somebody in Washington will protect our environment better than we can.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller spent more money in New York to assure clean water than did the entire Federal Government.

Is the role of the prime minister to cultivate political leadership in Israel? My answer is yes.

There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.

We're going to make sure there is a strong price on carbon right across the country, and we're hoping that the provinces are going to be able to do that, in a way, for themselves.

As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies.