Country Quote by Condoleezza Rice

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of…

— Ian Somerhalder

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a…

— Bill Nelson

We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are…

— Carl Safina

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it…

— James Hervey

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

— Sylvia Earle

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And…

— Patty Hearst

Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using techniques that…

— Sylvia Earle

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

— Sylvia Earle

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

— William J. Clinton

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

— Sylvia Earle

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

— John F. Kerry

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or…

— Alexander Hamilton