Jerry Costello Quotes

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.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

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.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

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?

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Doing everything the scientists wanted us to do [to protect the environment] would be ruinous.

We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.

Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home.

It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.