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Endangered species are our friends. -- Yao Ming
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. -- Norm Dicks
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. -- Bruce Babbitt
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. -- Jay Inslee
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper -- Daphne Zuniga
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. -- Don Young
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. -- Daphne Zuniga
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. -- Bill Vaughan
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. -- Dave Barry
The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about. -- Jack Hanna
I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did. -- Bindi Irwin
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. -- Loretta Lynch
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'. -- Gary Wright
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,. -- Chris Cannon
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. -- King Albert II
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. -- John O. Brennan
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. -- Steve Irwin
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. -- Jim Saxton
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. -- Wavy Gravy
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. -- Gwen Moore
It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills. -- Douglas Brinkley
Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it's probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave. -- Michele Jaffe
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! -- Patrice Leconte
Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species. -- Alex Meraz
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. -- Arianna Huffington
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. -- James Madison
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. -- Ed Koch
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. -- Harriet Martineau
I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive. -- David Mixner
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. -- Christopher Dodd
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. -- Jung Chang
Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful. -- Haruki Murakami
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. -- Henri Nouwen
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely. -- Russell Banks
We're endangered by our own success. -- Vernor Vinge
All of the great whales are endangered. -- Paul Watson
Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas -- Terence McKenna
An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness. -- Deepak Chopra
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. -- Prince Philip
If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out. -- Mitch Hedberg
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? -- Steven Wright
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. -- Robert Kennedy
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. -- Jef I. Richards
Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings. -- Mason Cooley
I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest. -- Vivienne Westwood
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. -- Paul Watson
[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. -- Joel Sartore
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc. -- Yaya Toure
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them. -- Gloria Steinem
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. -- Henry Rollins
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. -- Tom Robbins
When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species. -- Helene D. Gayle
At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space. -- Bernard Cooper
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. -- Joseph Rotblat
Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered. -- Dalai Lama
Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both. -- Lynda Obst
That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered. -- John Green
Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone. -- Paul Theroux
We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important. -- Richard Di Natale
The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things. -- Steven Hall
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable. -- Richard Louv
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Strangers are an endangered species ... -- Adrienne Rich
I might be an endangered species. -- Waylon Jennings
My good mood felt like an endangered species. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list. -- Bill Hybels
Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security. -- Margaret Jensen
A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive. -- W. A. H. Rushton
Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species. -- Mathew Staver
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. -- Scott Westerfeld
Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself. -- Judith Jamison
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. -- Howard Hodgkin
Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything. -- Rafe Esquith
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. -- Douglas Adams
If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere. -- John F. Kennedy
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. -- Lily Tomlin
At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual. -- Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered. -- Samuel Johnson
Life is a ï¬ght, but not everyoneâ??s a ï¬ghter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. -- Andrew Vachss
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used. -- Jessica Valenti
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter. -- John F. Kennedy
I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs. -- Kirk Cameron
(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species. -- Jay Leno
When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot. -- Dan Harmon
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total. -- Sun Tzu
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While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe. -- Thomas Jefferson
Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered. -- Guido van Rossum
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. -- Earl Warren
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. -- Benjamin Cohen
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances. -- Israel Shenker
Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby. -- Sophie Kinsella
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. -- Jennifer Egan
Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape. -- Heidi Julavits
I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species. -- Christopher Hampton
I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species. -- Christopher Hampton
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. -- Christopher Hitchens
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . . -- Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment. -- Old Tom Morris
Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. -- Ulrich Beck
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other. -- Bill McKibben
I once saw two endangered species about to have sex, but I had to put a stop to it because I suspected one of them of being a prostitute. -- Jarod Kintz
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference? -- Chris Martin
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Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives. -- Judith Butler
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things. -- Lorrie Moore

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