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  • I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

    The New York Times, September 19, 1976.
  • The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.

  • The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

    Lying   Air   Texas  
  • The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

    Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
  • Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

    Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
  • It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

    Men   Earth Day   Quality  
  • An important measure of our true commitment to environmental quality is our dedication to protecting the wilderness and its inhabitants. We must recognize their ecological significance and preserve them as sources of inspiration and education. And we need them as places of quiet refuge and reflection.

    Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.101, Best Books on
  • I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

    Peace   Freedom   Rights  
    Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1029, Simon and Schuster
  • On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

    Jimmy Carter (1998). “Conversations with Carter”, p.51, Lynne Rienner Publishers
  • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  • We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

    Life   Business   Healing  
    "Visions: Turkish Earthquake - an Islamic apocalyptic sign? The dream of Janet Holmes a' Court and a republican prophet - John Dunmore Lang". Interview with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. August 25, 1999.
  • The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

  • By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

    Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
  • Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

  • I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

    "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.
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