Henry A. Kissinger Quotes
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Kissinger, Henry. White House Years. Little, Brown and Company, 1979.
This quotation is a variant of the famous Voltaire quotation {196416}.
The nation was facing a ruined, unregulated economy with 25% unemployment.
IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) is a group of industry and academic scientists which advices the EPA on a decisions about toxic level in a number of areas. However, with often polarized stakeholders and continuous lobbying, the process was very slow. The GAO reported that the average IRIS decision took 7 years to make. Deniston and others wanted a change in the EPA process.
Paulson, Michael Bloomberg and other politicians who had vast business experience were beginning a campaign to show the great danger to the economy of climate change and global warming.
Henry Alfred Kissinger KCMG is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, he became National Security Advisor in 1969 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest.