Famous Quotes

"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."

Jeff Goodell on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

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."