Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and…

“It’s just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country’s own fear.”

— Outrun the Moon Stacey Lee

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of…

— Jim Jeffords

Our obligation to fight pollution traces the roots of its persuasion to that same moral mountaintop from which my father lent his voice to…

— Martin Luther King III

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

— Thomas More

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species…

— Richard Di Natale

“Sumptuary laws were passed to regulate fashions, particularly those of the third order.37 Rising standards of living and Epicurean attitudes had produced new tastes…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out…

— Daniel Kammen

“Take the proverb to thy soul! Take and clasp it fast: “The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.” —Sarah Doudney”

— Linda Goodnight

“Best let water passed under the bridge keep on trickling downstream.”

— Ellen Hopkins

The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my…

— Sylvia Plath

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his…

— Elizabeth Spencer

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

— Orison Swett Marden

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they…

— Terry Pratchett

“I sit down by the river. Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that…

— Gabrielle Dubois