Christine Todd Whitman Quotes

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

My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

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.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

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.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.