Climate change Quote by Jerry Brown Download Open image “It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.” — Jerry Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate change Developing Emulate Global warming Poverty Prosperity World
Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The case for open markets, free trade, private investment and technology has never been stronger in development. Over the decades, this combination has driven… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together. — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's a mistake,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans… — Steve Bullock Copy Share Image
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image