Jay Inslee Quotes

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

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.

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.

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

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

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.

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

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.

I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

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

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.