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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. -- Bill Gates
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. -- John Baldacci
Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition. -- Jacob Rothschild
The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent. -- Dennis Weaver
A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy. -- Ted Kulongoski
My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both. -- Geoff Hoon
Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. -- Sylvia Earle
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. -- Bruce Babbitt
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment. -- Jim Hightower
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. -- Leonard Boswell
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security. -- Paul Hawken
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. -- Fred Upton
As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy. -- Al Gore
Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe. -- Jack Germond
A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment. -- Peter Blair Henry
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both. -- Ed Rendell
So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.' -- Samantha Power
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net. -- Richard Attias
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. -- Dennis Weaver
Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature. -- Mollie Beattie
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. -- Herman E. Daly
We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy. -- Hillary Clinton
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. -- Barack Obama
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all. -- William J. Clinton
If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money. -- Guy R. McPherson
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. -- Sylvia Earle
You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy. -- Carly Fiorina
[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [...]. -- Noam Chomsky
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. -- Peter Coyote
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy

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