Steven Crowder Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

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

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

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.

What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

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

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

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

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

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

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

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

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.