Lena Guerrero Quotes

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

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

When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

Of all the unpopular things that Donald Trump is doing, the polling shows that the one that's most out of whack with Americans' opinions are these attacks on the environment. And it means, too, that people are going to have to start stepping up a little bit in other places.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

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

I think the rest of the world would like to tell us how to manage our own environment. And I think that anybody in America can tell you that we're best to decide what America should do.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Think globally, act locally.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

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.

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

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

Conservation has been in eclipse in this country ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s day. It had barely gotten off the ground when Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House in those days, issued his ultimatum: “Not 1 cent for scenery.” Well, today we are repealing Cannon’s law. We are declaring a new doctrine of conservation.

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

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

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

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

Doing everything the scientists wanted us to do [to protect the environment] would be ruinous.