Al Gore Quotes, Government Quotes, Ice Quotes

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Violence Quotes

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Opening Up Quotes

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?

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Tags : Al Meyerhoff Quotes , Children Quotes , Government Quotes

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

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Tags : Al Sharpton Quotes , Government Quotes , Giving Quotes

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Government Quotes

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Government Quotes , Dramatic Life Quotes

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Gone Quotes

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Sovereign Quotes

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

Liberty is its own reward.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Government Quotes

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Oil Quotes

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Government Quotes , Lust Quotes

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Government Quotes , Two Quotes

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , Done Quotes

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , Presidential Quotes