Bill Clinton Quotes

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

The future will either be green or not at all.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

Every time there is an economic intensification, there is an ecological impact.

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn’t have to come at the expense of our economy’s bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn’t have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.