John Kerry Quotes

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

What I hope is less about what the greens will do but what people who don't consider themselves part of the green movement will do.

I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.

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.

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

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

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it's not all on my shoulders.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

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.

If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmentalist of some kind, which is why he'd really like to be remembered for something almost nobody knows he did: naming Earth Day. It agitated him to look up Earth Day on Wikipedia recently and not see his name anywhere. So a few days ago, I added it.