Jim Jeffords Quotes

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

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

Ozone Man

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

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.

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.

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

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

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.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

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

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

My family and I want to start our own organization to work on global warming and a couple of other things.

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

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

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