Famous Quotes

"Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up."

Jeff Goodell on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Jeff Goodell

• "In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010."

• "Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business."

• "Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change."

• "Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change."

• "Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change."