"We have a moral responsibility to save wild……" — Lois Capps
"We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years."
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27 Quotes by Lois Capps
Lois Capps has 27 quotes on this site.
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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication…
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Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our…
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And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
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That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
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I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest…
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What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and…
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Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.
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As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the…
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Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in…
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Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not…
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I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge…
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More Arctic Quotes
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had…
— Richard Branson
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's…
— Ed Markey
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica,…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
— Bill McKibben
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want…
— William O. Douglas
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For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the…
— Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
— George Will
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the…
— Starhawk
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most…
— Lonnie Dupre
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