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2 | Anderson | Martin Anderson (economist; former Reagan White House adviser) | Just as one does not have the right to drop off a bag of garbage on his neighbor’s lawn, so does one not have the right to place any garbage in the air or the water or the earth, if it in any way violates the property rights of others. | Libertarian climate pollution | |||
3 | Anderson | Martin Anderson (economist; former Reagan White House adviser) | Now some even seriously propose that we should have economic incentives, to charge polluters a fee for polluting – and the more they pollute the more they pay. But that is just like taxing burglars as an economic incentive to deter people from stealing your property, and just as unconscionable … What we need are tougher clearer environmental laws that are enforced – not with economic incentives but with jail terms. | Libertarian climate pollution carbon tax | |||
4 | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. | libertarian, policy | |||
5 | Bacon | Congressman Don Bacon, Republican, NE 2nd District | I am proud to be joining the Climate Solutions Caucus to further expand my knowledge on the potential impacts of climate change and find bi-partisan solutions. This was a promise I made to constituents of my district and I keep my promises. | https://bacon.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-bacon-joins-bi-partisan-climate-solutions-caucus | 1/29/2018 | ||
6 | Baker | James Baker (Sec. of Treasury & Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan) | We know we have an uphill slog to get Republicans interested in this, (but) a conservative, free-market approach is a very Republican way of approaching the problem. [Regarding climate change on his way to speak to the White House 2/8/2017] | Prominent Republicans Pitch Carbon-Tax Plan to Top Trump Aides. Bloomberg. Feb 7, 2017 by Jennifer Dlouhy and Margaret Talev | https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-08/prominent-republicans-begin-push-to-tax-carbon-cut-regulations | 10/13/2017 | |
7 | Barrasso | Senator John Barrasso, Wyoming | ...the climate is changing and we, collectively, have a responsibility to do something about it. | John Barrasso. New York Times Opinion. December 18, 2018 "Cut Carbon through Innovation, Not Regulation" | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opinion/climate-carbon-tax-innovation.html | 4/16/2019 | |
8 | Barton | Congressman Joe Barton (Republican TX06 1985-2019) | I can be as combatively conservatively Republican as the next guy, but if you're going to legislate, you're going to have to compromise, and you're going to have to include all sides,. Not just Republican, Democrat, but liberal, conservative, moderate, because the legislation that becomes law and lasts, everybody has to have some part of it so they have ownership. | E&E News, November 22, 2018. "DEPARTURE LOUNGE: Joe Barton proud of 'Halliburton loophole,' climate skepticism" | 12/23/2018 | ||
9 | Barton | Congressman Joe Barton (Republican TX06 1985-2019) - speaking on CCL | Not all climate activists are radical leftists. All six of them are currently working for Halliburton, Exxon or are physics professors at major research universities. These were not wild-eyed hippies from the '60s, these were professional, private-sector people. | E&E News, November 22, 2018. "DEPARTURE LOUNGE: Joe Barton proud of 'Halliburton loophole,' climate skepticism" | 12/23/2018 | ||
10 | Bastiat | Frederic Bastiat | In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? | Liberty | Bastiat, Frederic. 1850. The Law | http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/thelaw/thelaw3.htm | 7/23/2018 |
11 | Bastiat | Frederic Bastiat | There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. | Liberty, Plunder, Law, Morality | |||
12 | Boyd | United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd | OODA loop: observe, orient, decide, and act. | OODA loop is the decision cycle of observe, orient, decide, and act, developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd | |||
13 | BP | BP | We believe that well-designed carbon pricing provides the right incentives for everyone – energy producers and consumers alike – to play their part in reducing emissions. It makes energy efficiency more attractive and makes low carbon solutions, such as renewables and carbon capture, use and storage, more cost-competitive | Oil & Gas Company | BP website. "last edited 12 November 2015" https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/bp-magazine/observations/why-we-want-to-act-on-climate-change.html . Accessed 5/17/2018 | https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/sustainability/climate-change/our-role-in-advancing-the-energy-transition/carbon-pricing.html | 8/7/2019 |
14 | Burke | Edmond Burke (1729-1797) | Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little. | action | |||
15 | Burke | Edmond Burke (1729-1797) | The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more. | A Vindication of Natural Society, 1757 | https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/burke-a-vindication-of-natural-society | 12/27/2018 | |
16 | Burke | Edmond Burke (1729-1797) | Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing, and Wisdom say another. | Third Letter on Regicide Peace, 1797 | https://www.enotes.com/topics/letters-regicide-peace/quotes/never-did-nature-say-one-thing-wisdom-say-another | 12/27/2018 | |
17 | Burke | Edmond Burke (1729-1797) | Society is indeed a contract... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. | Reflections, page 96 (114) | https://www.constitution.org/eb/rev_fran.htm | 12/27/2018 | |
18 | Burke | Edmond Burke (1729-1797) | Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their dispostion to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there be within the more there must be without. | Letter to a Member of the National Assembly of France (1791) | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15700/15700-h/15700-h.htm | 12/27/2018 | |
19 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | Labels are for cans. | sides position | |||
20 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | speaking about climate change… “…to say that this issue has sides is about as productive as saying that the Earth is flat.” | ||||
21 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | I sincerely believe we must do everything in our power to promote global cooperation: for environmental protection and economic growth; for intelligent management of our natural resources and efficient us of our industrial capacity. And for sustainable and environmentally sensitive development -- around the world. | Remarks by the President of the United States to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Georgetown University, Washington DC, February 5, 1990 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
22 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | We all know that human activities are changing the atmosphere in unexpected and in unprecedented ways. Much remains to be done. Many questions remain to be answered. Together, we have a responsibility to ourselves and the generations to come to fulfill our stewardship obligations. But that responsibility demands that we do it right. | Remarks by the President of the United States to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Georgetown University, Washington DC, February 5, 1990 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
23 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | I believe we should make use of what we know....We bear a sacred trust in our tenancy here - and a covenant with those most precious to us: our children & theirs. We also understand the efficiency of incentives-& that well-informed free markets yield the most creative solutions. | Remarks by the President of the United States to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Georgetown University, Washington DC, February 5, 1990 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
24 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | Among all the challenges in our tenancy of this planet, climate change is, of course, foremost in your minds. We're leading the search for response strategies and working through the uncertainty of both the science and the economics of climate change. But there is one area where we will allow for no uncertainty -- and that is our commitment to action -- to sound analysis and sound policies. To those who suggest we're only trying to balance economic growth and environmental protection, I say they miss the point. We are calling for an early new way of thinking to achieve both while compromising neither. By applying the power of the marketplace in the service of the environment. | Remarks by the President (George H.W. Bush) in the Closing Address to the White House Conference on Science and Economics Research Related to Global Change. April 10, 1990 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
25 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | we cannot allow a question like climate change to be characterized as a debate between economists versus environmentalists. To say that this issue has sides is about as productive as saying the Earth is flat...The truth is, strong economies allow nations to fulfill the obligations of stewardship. And environmental stewardship is crucial to sustaining strong economies. If we lose sight of the forest for the trees we risk losing both. | Remarks by the President (George H.W. Bush) in the Closing Address to the White House Conference on Science and Economics Research Related to Global Change. April 10, 1991 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
26 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | Pollution is not, as we once believed, the inevitable byproduct of progress. True global stewardship will be achieved not by seeking limits to growth, which are contrary to human nature, but by achieving environmental protection through more informed, more efficient, and cleaner growth. | Remarks by the President (George H.W. Bush) in the Closing Address to the White House Conference on Science and Economics Research Related to Global Change. April 10, 1992 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
27 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | Those who value environmental quality the most, should be the most ardent supporters of strategies that tap the power of free wills and free markets; strategies that turn human nature to environmental advantage. Equally, those who value economic development most highly should be the most ardent defenders of the environment, which provides the basis for a healthy economy. | Remarks by the President (George H.W. Bush) in the Closing Address to the White House Conference on Science and Economics Research Related to Global Change. April 10, 1993 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
28 | Bush | George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) | let us neither grieve nor quarrel, but act on what we know can help, and act in good faith. Our challenge is global stewardship. To work together to find long-term strategies that will meet the needs of the entire world, and all therein. | Remarks by the President (George H.W. Bush) in the Closing Address to the White House Conference on Science and Economics Research Related to Global Change. April 10, 1994 | https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZYZ.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZYZ.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=6 | 12/3/2018 | |
29 | Churchill | Winston Churchill | Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. | action path | |||
30 | Churchill | Winston Churchill | Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. | ||||
31 | Churchill | Winston Churchill | Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. | ||||
32 | Curbelo | Carlos Curbelo, Republican Congressman FL 26th District | Ignoring climate change is as irresponsible as ignoring this country’s fiscal debt. | Said on CCL monthly call on Saturday, March 12, 2016 | |||
33 | Curbelo | Carlos Curbelo, Republican Congressman FL 26th District | ... ignoring climate change is as reckless or as irresponsible as ignoring our country’s growing national debt and the fiscal crisis that looms if we do not take action and make some meaningful reform to some of our mandatory spending programs. This is the same theme as when it comes to climate change. The debt with the climate is growing. | https://peterisintheforest.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/its-time-to-pay-down-our-climate-debt/comment-page-1/ | 10/13/2017 | ||
34 | Demming | Edward Deming | Without data you're just another person with an opinion. | ||||
35 | Dolan | Edward Dolan, Economist, Niskanen Institute fellow | Taken together, these shortcomings (on climate change) leave Austrian environmental economics with a split personality. On a theoretical level, Austrian writers delight in claiming the moral high ground, condemning polluters as aggressors against property rights. On a practical level, however, they leave pollution victims in the lurch. They invite them to sue, but propose a set of legal standards that would guarantee that polluters would always win. They oppose all government measures to reduce pollution, whether through regulation or through measures to make polluters pay. As a result, at least in cases of environmental mass torts, the Austrian paradigm is a polluter’s dream and a victim’s nightmare. It offers far too little of any practical value toward securing property rights, too little toward facilitating environmental coordination, and too little toward promoting libertarian justice. Much work remains to be done. | libertarian | Dolan, Edwin. 2014. The Austrian Paradigm in Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. p. 216 | https://mises.org/library/austrian-paradigm-environmental-economics-theory-and-practice | 10/13/2017 |
36 | Dolan | Edward Dolan, Economist, Niskanen Institute fellow | Market liberals [Libertarians] should keep a clear head when it comes to the relationship between science and public policy. It is fine to be legitimately cautious when policies are urged on the basis of weakly established scientific fads. One should be vigilant against attempts to smuggle questionable economic or political assumptions into scientific analysis, as is sometimes done in the global warming debate, and also to possible biases in research produced by grant-seeking and public choice considerations. But at the same time, as Hayek warned, any reluctance to accept new scientific theories must itself be rational and must be kept separate from the regret that the new theories may upset cherished beliefs (let alone that they threaten the financial interests of useful allies). This is a fine line to walk, and I fear that the market-liberal camp may at times have overstepped it. | libertarian | Edwin G Dolan. 2006. Science, Public Policy, and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position. in Cato Journal, Vol 26. No 3. (fall 2006) p445-468. | https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2006/11/cj26n3-3.pdf | 10/13/2017 |
37 | Dolan | Edward Dolan, Economist, Niskanen Institute fellow | There can be no coordination unless the property rights of both polluters and their victims are clearly defined and diligently enforced. In the case of environmental mass torts, that appears to be a practical impossibility, as proponents of the property rights approach themselves acknowledge. | Libertarian climate change | Dolan, Edwin. 2014. The Austrian Paradigm in Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. p. 207 | https://mises.org/library/austrian-paradigm-environmental-economics-theory-and-practice | 10/13/2017 |
38 | Dolan | Edward Dolan, Economist, Niskanen Institute fellow | ...there is also a less radical, more practically minded thread within the Austrian tradition, that of Hayekian classical liberalism, which envisions a limited government supported by limited, minimally intrusive forms of taxation. From a classical liberal point of view, pollution fees deserve a fair hearing. | Libertarian climate change carbon tax pollution fee | Dolan, Edwin. 2014. The Austrian Paradigm in Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. p. 211 | https://mises.org/library/austrian-paradigm-environmental-economics-theory-and-practice | 10/13/2017 |
39 | Donovan | Congressman Dan Donovan, Republican, NY 11th District | Extreme weather events pose a significant risk to the safety of millions of Americans, businesses and properties, and we must act now to confront these challenges. I look forward to working with the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus to put forth innovative solutions that safeguard our environment and make communities across the country more resilient. | https://sanford.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/sanford-joins-the-climate-solutions-caucus | 1/29/2018 | ||
40 | Donovan | Congressman Dan Donovan, Republican, NY 11th District | As chairman of the subcommittee that has jurisdiction over anti-terror and natural disaster preparedness policies, I understand that the work of the [Climate Solutions] Caucus is increasingly important to protecting our citizens. | https://sanford.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/sanford-joins-the-climate-solutions-caucus | 1/29/2018 | ||
41 | Douglass | Frederick Douglass | I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. | attributed to Frederick Douglass. Not disputed, but also not in his writing. | |||
42 | Dreher | Rod Dreher | …whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world. | A green Christian conservative, USA Today, April 24, 2006 | |||
43 | Dreher | Rod Dreher | As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk’s idea of the “eternal society” evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now. | A green Christian conservative, USA Today, April 24, 2006 | |||
44 | Dreher | Rod Dreher | It’s not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move in that direction. It is morally right. It is religiously correct. It is economically prudent. It strengthens national defense. And it makes a better world for our children, and our children’s children. | Crunchy Cons, page 178 | |||
45 | Edison | Thomas Edison | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | failure perserverance work fortune capability | |||
46 | Edison | Thomas Edison | Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. | failure perserverance work fortune capability | |||
47 | Edison | Thomas Edison | I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work. | failure perserverance work fortune capability | |||
48 | Edison | Thomas Edison | If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. | failure perserverance work fortune capability | |||
49 | Eisenhower | Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the United States) | In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. | ||||
50 | Eisenhower | Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the United States) | As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. | Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 | |||
51 | ExxonMobil | ExxonMobil's Perspective on climate change | We have the same concerns as people everywhere – and that is how to provide the world with the energy it needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The risk of climate change is clear and the risk warrants action. Increasing carbon emissions in the atmosphere are having a warming effect. There is a broad scientific and policy consensus that action must be taken to further quantify and assess the risks… Addressing climate change, providing economic opportunity and lifting billions out of poverty are complex and interrelated issues requiring complex solutions. There is a consensus that comprehensive strategies are needed to respond to these risks. | Oil & Gas Company | ExxonMobil website. "ExxonMobil's perspectives on climate change" http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-policy/climate-perspectives/our-position . Accessed 5/17/2018 | http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-policy/climate-perspectives/our-position | 5/17/2018 |
52 | Flake | Jeff Flake Fmr. Arizona Senator | there are things that we can do and should do and I think Republicans need to be at the forefront if we want to keep our place and keep our seats | Republicans, Climate Change | on TV with George Stephanopoulos | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/oct/17/republican-lawmakers-react-to-the-ipcc-report-we-have-scientists-too | 12/3/2019 |
53 | Ford | Gerald R. Ford (39th President of US) | I urge more citizens to become part of what the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter described as an informed, civically militant electorate. I encourage you to become knowledgeable on all sides of leading issues and with all political personalities. | ||||
54 | Ford | Gerald R. Ford (39th President of US) | There are two kinds of education you get in this world. One you get from others, and another you give yourself. | ||||
55 | Ford | Gerald R. Ford (39th President of US) | We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve. | Remarks at dedication of National Environmental Research Center, July 3, 1975 | |||
56 | Frankfurter | Felix Frankfurter (Supreme Court Justice) | Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives. | communication action | dissenting opinion Baker v. Carr (1962) | ||
57 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. | communication civil | |||
58 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Never confuse motion with action. | ||||
59 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. | ||||
60 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. | Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1738 | |||
61 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Wish not so much to live long as to live well | Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738 | |||
62 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Well done is better than well said | Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1737 | |||
63 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices | Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738 | |||
64 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Lost time is never found again | Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1747 | |||
65 | Friedman | Milton Friedman | “The best way to [reduce auto emissions] is to impose a tax on the amount of pollutants emitted by a car,” --“[This] make[s] it in the self-interest of car manufacturers and consumers to keep down the amount of pollution.” | Pollution economics | https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/ghost-of-milton-friedman-materializes-in-chicago-endorses-a-price-on-carbon/ | 12/3/2019 | |
66 | Friedman | Milton Friedman | |||||
67 | Gaetz | Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL01) | Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening. | Trump-Republican | https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/matt_gaetz_1000278 | 12/3/2019 | |
68 | Gaetz | Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL01) | I believe the Earth is warming. I believe that humans contribute to that warming. And I think that history will judge very harshly those who are climate deniers. And I don’t want to be one of them. | Trump-Republican | Rick's Blog, November 21, 2017. Gaetz believes in climate change, not EPA. (accessed 11/29/2017) - as Tweeted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) on November 28, 2017. | http://ricksblog.biz/gaetz-believes-in-climate-change-not-epa/ | 11/21/2017 |
69 | Gardner | Senator Cory Gardner, Colorado | When it comes to addressing complex challenges like climate change, it’s important that we work together to develop realistic solutions. | Cory Gardner Op-Ed in The Durango Herald on April 4, 2019 "Green New Deal is a raw new deal for Colorado" | https://durangoherald.com/articles/270871-green-new-deal-is-a-raw-new-deal-for-colorado | 4/16/2019 | |
70 | Gardner | Senator Cory Gardner, Colorado | I believe in climate change, and I believe humans are contributing to it. | Cory Gardner Op-Ed in The Durango Herald on April 4, 2019 "Green New Deal is a raw new deal for Colorado" | https://durangoherald.com/articles/270871-green-new-deal-is-a-raw-new-deal-for-colorado | 4/16/2019 | |
71 | Gates | Robert Gates, 22nd US Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011 (Presidents Bush & Obama) | I think the long term consequences [of global warming] are serious. For example, as sea levels rise, the implications for political stability in a lot of countries where a lot of the population lives along the coast seems to me it’s going to be significant. Here, domestically, you know we’ve got some very big naval bases in Norfolk and elsewhere that are potentially, and in Florida, that potentially would be significantly impacted by a significant rise in the level of the oceans. If more and more countries begin to deal with more and more severe droughts, food shortages and famine could lead to political instability. So I think there are very real national security implications to what is happening to the climate. | National Security; | Face the Nation Interview between John Dickerson and Robert Gates. May 16, 2016 | https://climateandsecurity.org/2016/05/19/secretary-gates-national-security-implications-of-climate-change-very-real/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sec-robert-gates-discusses-global-warming-and-long-term-national-security-issues/ | 11/26/2017 |
72 | Gates | Robert Gates, 22nd US Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011 (Presidents Bush & Obama) | Over the next 20 years and more, certain pressures-population, energy, climate, economic, environmental-could combine with rapid cultural, social, and technological change to produce new sources of deprivation, rage, and instability. | National Security; | https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/30/15-military-leaders-who-say-climate-change-is-a/184705 | 11/26/2017 | |
73 | Genesis | Genesis 1:28-31 (NIV) | God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was good. | Christian Bible | |||
74 | Genesis | Genesis 1:28 (NIV) | Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. | Christian Bible | |||
75 | Genesis | Genesis 2:15 (NIV) | The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. | Christian Bible | |||
76 | Goldwater | Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) | While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. | The Conscience of a Majority (1970) | |||
77 | Gonzalez | Anthony Gonzalez, Republican Representative OH-16 | I believe climate change is real and global and industrial development is a contributing factor… It is not enough to point fingers… We do have a problem and the government can play a role in helping solve it. What I believe is the most reasonable path forward is … a path that fosters a diverse set of energy sources and seeks to make alternative energy as affordable and reliable as the traditional sources we use today. For that, I do not wish to rely on government takeovers of our biggest industries, but rather, I want to focus on empowering the American people, and unleashing the most powerful economic force of human history. If we do this, we will be able to reduce carbon emissions at home but also abroad as we are able to commercialize these to developed technologies around the world. | "State of Climate Science and Why it Matters" hearing in the House Science, Space & Technology Committee hearing. Start at 2:05:18 | https://www.c-span.org/video/?457869-1/scientists-testify-house-climate-change-hearing&start=NaN&start=NaN | 3/14/2019 | |
78 | Gorsuch | Neil Gorsuch | At our founding the people fought a revolution for the right not ot be ruled by a monarch or any other unelected elite, judges included. They wanted to rule themselves. They knew the right of self-government promised many gifts. The right to chart our own destiny as a people. To speak our minds, work as we wish, exercise our own faiths or none at all, pursue happiness as we see it, and secure a more promising future for our children. And to do all this in a culture that cherishes differences and aspires to assure equal treatment under written law. | America, | Neil Gorsuch, "A Republic, If You Can Keep It" (2019) | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-neil-gorsuch/1131086372 | |
79 | Gorsuch | Neil Gorsuch | (What is courage) "To know that you may gain notihng but scorn in return for your risk, and that your decission may never be vindicated. And then, knowing all this, to step forward anyway." | courage | Neil Gorsuch, "A Republic, If You Can Keep It" (2019) | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-neil-gorsuch/1131086372 | |
80 | Gorsuch | Neil Gorsuch | Remember, too, that while you will have many regrets in life -- things done or said, things left undone or unsaid -- you will never regret being kind to those around you. The easy path is to shun those with whom you disagree. Show the courage of kindness. | Neil Gorsuch, "A Republic, If You Can Keep It" (2019) | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-neil-gorsuch/1131086372 | ||
81 | Graham | Lindsey Graham, R Senator SC | Everybody says, ‘Well, I’m no scientist.’ O.K., well, why don’t you believe 90 percent of the people who are? Why do you only believe the one guy who tells you what you think people want to hear? | NY TImes July 8, 2015 "Lindsey Graham’s Old-School Campaign Amid Field of Memes" by Ashley Parker | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/us/politics/back-to-basics-campaign-seems-to-suit-lindsey-graham-just-fine.html?_r=0) | 10/13/2017 | |
82 | Graham | Lindsey Graham, R Senator SC | I'm a Republican. I believe that the greenhouse effect is real, that CO2 emissions generated by man is creating our greenhouse gas effect that traps heat, and the planet is warming. ... A price on carbon — that's the way to go in my view. | Senator Lindsey Graham in a transcript of his pre-recorded message to a Yale University climate change conference on September 19, 2017 as reported in the Washington Examiner. | https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lindsey-graham-endorses-carbon-tax-at-yale-climate-forum | 8/3/2018 | |
83 | Gretzky | Wayne Gretzky | You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. | action try | |||
84 | Gretzky | Wayne Gretzky | A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. | anticipation foresight | |||
85 | Gretzky | Wayne Gretzky | I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. | anticipation foresight | |||
86 | Hagel | Chuck Hagel; former Republican Senator from Nebraska; US Secretary of Defense from 2013 to 2015 (Obama) | The military has defined climate change as a global threat multiplier that could exacerbate instigators of conflict such as resource disputes, ethnic tensions and economic discontent. Preparing for climate change is about risk—even if we do not understand every aspect of the scientific predictions, we know that the consequences of not acting may be significant. | National Security; | Chuck Hagel. December 1, 2015. "Chuck Hagel: Climlate Change Is a National Security Problem". in Time Magazine . | http://time.com/4130796/paris-climate-conference-chuck-hagel/ | 11/26/2017 |
87 | Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton | it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind. | Alexander Hamilton, 1787. The Federalist Papers: No. 1. | http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed01.asp | 3/23/2019 | |
88 | Harbour | William Harbour | …Conservatism distrusts talk about freedom that gives exclusive stress to notions of rights and the claims that individuals make against society while it ignores the notion of responsibility. | Harbour, William, 1982. Foundations of Conservative Thought. pages 102-103 | |||
89 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | The more a man indulges in the propensity to blame others or circumstances for his failures, the more disgruntled and ineffective he tends to become. | blame self reliance libertarian | The Constitution of Liberty; chapter 5, section 7 | ||
90 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | If … concerns are made the responsibility of many without at the same time imposing a duty to joint and agreed action, the result is usually that nobody really accepts responsibility. As everybody’s property in effect is nobody’s property, so everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility. | commons joint responsibility libertarian | The Constitution of Liberty; chapter 5, section 8 | ||
91 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | It is knowing what we have not known before that makes us wiser men. | learning libertarian | The Constitution of Liberty; chapter 3, section 2 | ||
92 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | This difference shows itself most clearly in the different attitudes of the two traditions to the advancement of knowledge. Though the liberal certainly does not regard all change as progress, he does regard the advance of knowledge as one of the chief aims of human effort and expects from it the gradual solution of such problems and difficulties as we can hope to solve. Without preferring the new merely because it is new, the liberal is aware that it is of the essence of human achievement that it produces something new; and he is prepared to come to terms with new knowledge, whether he likes its immediate effects or not. Personally, I find the most objectionable feature of the conservative attitude is its propensity to reject well-substantiated new knowledge because it dislikes some of the consequences which seem to follow from it -- or, to put it bluntly, its obscurantism. I will not deny that scientists as much as others are given to fads and fashions and that we have much reason to be cautious in accepting the conclusions that they draw from their latest theories. But the reasons for our reluctance must themselves be rational and must be kept separate from our regret that the new theories upset our cherished beliefs. | libertarian; conservative | The Constitution of Liberty, 1960. page 404 | ||
93 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | Reason undoubtedly is man’s most precious possession. | logic think thought libertarian | The Constitution of Liberty; chapter 4, section 10 | ||
94 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | It is regrettable, though not difficult to explain, that much less attention than to these negative points has in the past been given to the positive requirements of a successful working of the competitive system. The functioning of competition not only requires adequate organization of certain institutions like money, markets, and channels of information – some of which can never be adequately provided by private enterprise – but it depends above all on the existence of an appropriate legal system, a legal system designed both to preserve competition and to make it operate as beneficially as possible. It is by no means sufficient that the law should recognize the principle of private property and freedom of contract; much depends on the precise definition of the right of property as applied to different things. The systematic study of the forms of legal institutions which will make the competitive system work efficiently has been sadly neglected; and strong arguments can be advanced that serious shortcomings here, particularly with regard to the law of corporations and of patents, have not only made competition work much more badly than it might have done, but have even led to the destruction of competition in many spheres. There are, finally, undoubted fields where no legal arrangements can create the main condition on which the usefulness of the system of competition and private property depends: namely, that the owner benefits from all the useful services rendered by his property and suffers for all the damages caused to others by its use. Where, for example, it is impracticable to make the enjoyment of certain services dependent on the payment of a price, competition will not produce the services; and the price system becomes similarly ineffective when the damage caused to others by certain uses of property cannot be effectively charged to the owner of that property. In all these instances there is a divergence between the items which enter into private calculation and those which affect social welfare; and whenever this divergence becomes important some method other than competition may have to be found to supply the services in question. Thus neither the provision of signposts on the roads, nor, in most circumstances, that of the roads themselves, can be paid for by every individual user. Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, or of some methods of farming, or of the smoke and noise of factories, be confined to the owner of the property in question or to those who are willing to submit to the damage for an agreed compensation. In such instances we must find some substitute for the regulation by the price mechanism. But the fact that we have to resort to the substitution of direct regulation by authority where the conditions for the proper working of competition cannot be created, does not prove that we should suppress competition where it can be made to function. To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to supplement it where it cannot be made effective, to provide the services which, in the words of Adam Smith, "though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals", these tasks provide indeed a wide and unquestioned field for state activity. In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing. An effective competitive system needs an intelligently designed and continuously adjusted legal framework as much as any other. | Market libertarian; extended quote | F.A. Hayek, 1944. The Road to Serfdom (Chapter 3) | https://mises.org/library/road-serfdom-0 | |
95 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | A free society probably demands more than any other that people be guided in their action by a sense of responsibility which extends beyond the duties exacted by the law and that general opinion approve of the individuals’ being held responsible for both the success and the failure of their endeavors. When men are allowed to act as they see fit, they must also be held responsible for the results of their efforts. | responsibility free society libertarian | The Constitution of Liberty; chapter 5, section 3 | ||
96 | Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. A free society will not function or maintain itself unless its members regard it as right that each individual occupy the position that results from his action and accept it as due to his own action. Though it can offer to the individual only chances and though it forcefully directs his attention to those circumstances that he can control as if they were the only ones that mattered. Since the individual is to be given the opportunity to make use of circumstances that may be known only to him and since, as a rule, nobody else can know whether he has made the best use of them or not, the presumption is that the outcome of his actions is determined by them, unless the contrary is quite obvious. | responsibility free society libertarian | The Constitution of Liberty; chapter 5, section 1 | ||
97 | Hayhoe | Katharine Hayhoe | I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith. | ||||
98 | HRes 195 | ..if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long-term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation. | https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/195/text | 10/13/2017 | |||
99 | Hubbard | R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President George W. Bush | Business people don't innovate because it feels good; they innovate becuase there's a return ot that innovation. If you want a return to that innovation... you need to put a price on carbon. | Carbon Dividend | |||
100 | Inglis | Bob Inglis | let’s just eliminate all the subsidies for all the fuels, and then let’s attach all the costs to all the fuels so that then there is a true cost comparison between the incumbent fossil fuels and the challenger fuels. | carbon price carbon tax | https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/bob-inglis-climate-change-and-the-republican-party/ | 6/5/2018 |