"Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change."
-Jeff Goodell
FailureView Quote
"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.“
-Jeff Goodell
posted in Power
Other Quotes by Jeff Goodell
Discover more inspiring quotes by Jeff Goodell
"One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing."
-Jeff Goodell
DeathView Quote
"Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet."
-Jeff Goodell
CourageView Quote
"Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking."
-Jeff Goodell
PowerView Quote
"Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?"
-Jeff Goodell
EnvironmentalView Quote
"Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing."
-Jeff Goodell
EnvironmentalView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
PowerView Quote
"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
PowerView Quote
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
PowerView Quote
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
PowerView Quote
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
PowerView Quote
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
PowerView Quote