Dennis Prager Quotes

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.

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 problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Republicans sleep in twin beds—some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats.

Economics trumps environmentalism, for Democrats and Republicans.

Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

I have more experience in the green economy than anyone in that Liberal caucus. I care about it. But we don't put all of our chips in it. With the Trudeau government, it is all about rhetoric and ideology and not about a practical approach.

The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Here's good news: George W. Bush says that he is committed to fighting global warming. Yeah, well, he nipped that in the bud, didn't he? ... President Bush says he's really going to buckle down now and fight global warming. As a matter of fact, he announced today he's sending 20,000 troops to the sun

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left

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

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.

The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes trillions of dollars a year being a bigot, and that's how much the fossil-fuel industry pulls in pumping carbon into the air. But the principle is the same, I think.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?