George W. Bush Quotes

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.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led the world in reducing carbon emissions.

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.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

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.

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.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

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

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

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.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

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

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

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.

Okay Mr. Environmentalist. Come here and explain this.