Nancy Pelosi Quotes

I encourage young people to feel passionately about important issues including climate change. But to suggest that they should strike during school hours is grossly irresponsible.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

Global warming is a crisis greater than WWI and WWII put together. Government leadership is lacking, so companies must play their part.

Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.

The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.

With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.

I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change requires that we ask no less of our leaders, or ourselves.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a political movement, I hope that what I write may, in combination with the suggestions of others, cause a shift in perspective that will inspire a world-wide movement to accept the only solution to climate change. And before it's too late.

We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because everybody assumed that reasonable heads would prevail and do the right thing - and why would you need to have a huge movement in order to cause our leaders to deal with the most serious problem that they face. In a rational world you wouldn't. They would deal with it.

Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead