Population Quotes · Page 56

Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.

— Ken Mehlman

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

— David R. Brower

They [ the government of Puerto Rico] are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be…

— Marco Rubio

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]…

— Thomas Jefferson

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and…

— E. O. Wilson

[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic…

— Warren MacKenzie

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

— Rick Warren

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors…

— Dave Barry

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria…

— David Miliband

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing…

— Al Gore

The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This…

— Vladimir Putin

All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist…

— Akbar Ganji

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives…

— Noam Chomsky

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

— Gene Sharp

While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we…

— E. O. Wilson

As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history…

— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

— John Mearsheimer

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a…

— Noam Chomsky

“One can only wonder about a country that calls itself the greatest nation on Earth and silently radiation poisons its mass population.”

— Steven Magee

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing…

— David Eagleman

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be…

— James Monroe

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to…

— William Ralph Inge

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going.…

— Isaac Marion

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less…

— Alex Tabarrok

It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not,…

— Neil Druckmann