Achim Steiner Quotes

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.

Ever since I was defense minister, I have participated in global meetings on the issue of climate and security.

Climate change poses a serious threat to global prosperity, security and wellbeing.

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.

But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.