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Notable quotable	David Roberts	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I learned that God reveals himself through Scripture and in general through his creation, and when we destroy God's creation, it's similar to ripping pages from the Bible.' -- Rev. James Merritt Jonathan Merritt, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention spokesman for the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative and signatory to the just-released Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change
Topics: green living, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'Is it all right to hurt humans in order to protect whales? I think whales are cute and important creatures, but even so, hurting humans is unforgivable.' -- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, criticizing anti-whaling activists
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Japan, oceans, quotables, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'Oh, yeah? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.' -- President George W. Bush, upon hearing that numerous analysts are predicting $4/gallon gasoline
Topics: quotables, energy, oil, George Bush (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'So when it came time to vote on Dick Cheney's energy bill, I voted no, and Senator Obama voted yes.' -- Hillary Clinton, Ohio Democratic presidential primary debate
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"I helped to pass legislation to begin a training program for green collar jobs. I want to see people throughout Ohio being trained to do the work that will put solar panels on roofs, install wind turbines, do geothermal, take advantage of biofuels, and I know that if we had put $5 billion into the stimulus package to really invest in the training and the tax incentives that would have created those jobs as the Democrats w ...
Topics: elections, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"We're going to have to invest in infrastructure to make sure that we're competitive. And I've got a plan to do that. We're going to have to invest in science and technology. We've got to vastly improve our education system. We have to look at energy and the potential for creating green jobs that can not just save on our energy costs but, more importantly, can create jobs in building windmills that will produce manufacturing jobs here in Ohio, can put rural commun ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'I have the same feelings about wind as I had about the best oil field I ever found.' -- financier and oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens
Topics: energy, oil, quotables, wind power (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'This idea of clean, green energy is no longer a tie-dyed T-shirt kind of idea. This is mainstream economics.' -- Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio
Topics: economy, energy, quotables, renewable energy (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"After all, there's not a dime's worth of a difference between a candidate promising tax cuts, pushing more health risk onto individuals, a re-invigoration of George Bush's campaign to dominate the world through military force, and an industry-friendly approach to environmental issues and his rival who's promising substantial socialization of medical risk, a 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions, and end to the war in Iraq (and to the mindset that led to ...
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	24 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'His being on the Green Party [ballot] prevented Al Gore from being the greenest president we could have had, and I think that's really unfortunate. I think we paid a big price for it. I'm pretty sad about that. -- Hillary Clinton, on Ralph Nader's entry into the 2008 presidential race
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, quotables, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs. ... I think this economy is down because we built too many houses, and the economy is adjusting.' -- President George W. Bush, demonstrating his economic acumen
Topics: economy, George Bush, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'I think this is a landmark decision in North America as far as government addressing global warming. The B.C. government has decided to use one of the most powerful incentives at its disposal to reduce pollution.' -- Ian Bruce of the Suzuki Foundation, on the carbon tax just implemented by the provincial government of British Columbia
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'The [Lieberman-Warner] bill, as reported out of committee, would be the most historic incentive for nuclear in the history of the United States.' -- an aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, nuclear power, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'I do think we're in a position where we don't foresee the need for new coal-fired generation in the Carolinas anytime in the foreseeable future. It's probably premature to say we will never build a coal plant in the Carolinas again, but today we do not foresee the need to do that based on the inputs we see and based on planning in front of us.' -- Jim Turner, president of Duke Energy Duke is set to build a coal plant in N.C., with the blessing of the Sierra Club, ...
Topics: coal, energy, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
"... there are a number of pieces of legislation where [McCain's] views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought. So, for instance, he's opposed to drilling in ANWR, I believe. ... ... And then now McCain-Lieberman, which is a unilateral -- meaning U.S.-only imposed -- cap-and-trade program, which puts a burden, as much as 50 cents a gallon, on gasoline in this country. It basically says Americans are going to pa ...
Topics: Arctic refuge, carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Mitt Romney, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'Maybe we're wrong.' -- the Nader 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, getting halfway there
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'This is something that is very, very important, and I think it's something the president would sign. We have to have it.' -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, endorsing the fantasy that President Bush will sign Lieberman-Warner into law
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable What is a conservative?	Sean Casten	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
From Restructuring Today ($ub req'd), reporting on Markey's hearings on allocation vs. auction as a cap & trade methodology: Even conservative Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw believes a free allocation amounts to corporate welfare. Even conservative?
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'I like real food. Food that I can pronounce the name of.' -- House minority leader John Boehner, protesting to the new, healthier menu offered at the House cafeteria thanks to Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi's 'Greening the Capitol' program (Background on opposition from ag lobbies here. Some rather ... piquant comments from Chris Bower here.)
Topics: food, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'Environmentalism isn't a communist plot.' -- Colorado resident Dave Peterson, on the polarization of opinion on new state rules for oil and gas production
Topics: Colorado, energy, politics, quotables, state politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	22 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'Current economic growth, 11.5 percent or above 11 percent, is too fast and at too high a cost ... The government should curb economic growth within a reasonable range that is compatible with energy and resource supply and without causing more imbalance.' -- Han Yongwen, secretary general of China's National Development and Reform Commission
Topics: quotables, economy, China (all these topics)

Thought for the new year Studs Terkel on reclaiming work	Tom Philpott	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'Work is about daily meaning as well as daily bread. For recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying ... We have a right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment, and life.'-- Studs Turkel (Hat tip to Robert Rubinstein of the Brooklyn Bridge Group.)
Topics: quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'I really would like to vote for this bill because we desperately need an energy bill. The world and particularly the United States faces a real challenge on energy in the future. But I cannot vote for this bill primarily because of the corn ethanol mandate. A recent article in The Economist noted that our use of corn for ethanol doubled the price of corn about a year ago. Farmers then moved lands from soybeans and what would have been in soybeans and wheat to corn. We ...
Topics: quotables, politics, legislation, energy, agriculture, biofuels, ethanol (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'We seek your leadership. But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.'-- Kevin Conrad, U.N. delegate from Papua New Guinea, during contentious last-minute climate talks in Bali. Conrad's blunt declaration was met with applause.
Topics: quotables, Bali 07, politics, international politics, climate (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'You know, the Gore-leone crime family is now the number one crime family in the world, when you think about it. He's about to pull off the biggest scam in the history of the world. It's bigger than any bank heist, bigger than any drug deal. It's bigger than any counterfeiting scheme, and he's doing it all nice and natural with a little help from the socialist perverts in Norway, who gave him a Nobel Prize. Why do I call them socialist perverts? Answer: because they ar ...
Topics: Al Gore, quotables (all these topics)

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