Chris Gibson Quotes

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Nature would terminate the fevers by changing the seasons.

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

The issues of environment, health and education should be taken up vigorously.

After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to advance the agribusiness?

Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.

Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.

The more we know about Lyme, the more we can do to treat patients and educate families to stop the spread of this debilitating disease.

I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease and immigration and health care for all and war and peace and the environment are also pro-life issues.

But I think when you have something like the Green New Deal, which tends to be about big, bold ideas, instead of specifics, and then adds in other controversial topics like universal health care, and a guaranteed job for all Americans, it makes it less likely that it will pass, not more.

You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change.

With an investment in our state's energy infrastructure to capture methane, we will create jobs, increase revenue for our schools, and protect the health of workers and communities, all while reducing harmful emissions that are contributing to climate change.

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

Our small businesses, those in healthcare and the sick should be the only priority of legislation regarding Coronavirus.

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

We have always been a party that has had policies on everything, from education to the economy to the environment. We have always said that, if you are serious about the environment, then the policies that you need to change most are the economic policies.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

I want to work on environmental issues.