Christopher Dodd Quotes

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate.

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

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

The future will either be green or not at all.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

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

There is no Plan B becasue there is no Planet B.

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.