Robert Redford Quotes

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

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

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past weekend, Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' earned more per screen than any film in the country. ... I dare say Gore's movie is the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation in history. ... Global warming: Can we live with it? ... It is time we did something, namely resign ourselves to doing nothing [on screen: Follow Congress' Lead]. ... For instance, when sea levels rise, we'll just build levees [on screen: Worked for New Orleans]

The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.