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As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy. -- Bernie Sanders
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. -- John Baldacci
Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career. -- John Garamendi
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment. -- Marco Brambilla
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. -- Orison Swett Marden
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. -- Dan Lipinski
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. -- Germaine Greer
The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. -- Christian de Duve
A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts. -- Lindsey Graham
I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment. -- Bertrand Piccard
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
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. -- Burton Richter
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids. -- Marcus Samuelsson
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. -- Ellen DeGeneres
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect. -- Bjarke Ingels
Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment. -- Martin Rees
I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind. -- Jimmy Carter
It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!' -- Hans Vestberg
Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Conservation of energy also protects our environment. -- Lamar S. Smith
Sustainable energy + food security + healthy environment = full employment + better future. -- Phil Harding
There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment -- Nikola Tesla
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. -- Louise Fresco
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first. -- Dennis Kucinich
I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself. -- Phil Keoghan
Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive. -- Ban Ki-moon
Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment. -- Deepak Chopra
Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world. -- Rupert Murdoch
Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment. -- Roy Blunt
Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment. -- Frederick Lenz
It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy. -- Mike Hulme

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