Ted Turner Quotes

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

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• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  

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• I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Pretty
  • Party
  • Environment