Elizabeth May Quotes
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I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.
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Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
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Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.
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We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for George W. Bush. Together we can save the climate. Together we will stop fossil fuels from destroying our future.
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A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
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They could have dealt with it, probably, without raising the ire of some of the people in the environmental movement if all they'd done was to say that the section is titled 'Toxics and other substances of concern.'
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I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.
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We've been in negotiations, as you know, right through the night and at 6:17 this morning, he brought down the gavel on a set of agreements that may well save the planet.
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We had to work out how the world was going to be divided up and, using props and costumes, we had to stage a ten minute play.
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We have a lot of positive, constructive American engagement here in Montreal - and none of it's from the Bush administration, which represents the single biggest threat to global progress.
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If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.
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We're trying to help the Harper government deliver on its commitment to cut spending. There are billions of dollars to be saved.
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Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
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It's the nightmare scenario that environmental activists around the world have been hoping would be avoided.
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It's unfortunate. I sort of feel like saying.
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Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
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We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
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Allowing an election to happen now only serves the ends of people who don't want to see progress made under the Kyoto Protocol, so you have to say it's unfortunate that we've come to this.
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If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
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We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Using 1990 as the base year, Canada's emissions are now 24 percent higher, while the United States is up by 14 percent. The United States' performance is superior to Canada's, even though it is outside Kyoto.
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Then I started feeling better. There were all these things I could do.
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I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.
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I knew I had an old, cold, drafty house, ... But what they told me is where I made investments weren't my best investments.