Cynthia McKinney Quotes

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.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

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

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

I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.

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?

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

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

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.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.

We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

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.

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

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.