Holdren Quotes

#1. Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.

Marsha Blackburn

#2. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.

Peter Ferrara

#3. I never got into politics for it to be a career.

J. C. Watts

#4. To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.

John Holdren

#5. The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.

John Holdren

#6. I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.

John Holdren

#7. And the reason you play American Football, Hiruma-san?"
"Because it's fun."
(Translated)

Riichiro Inagaki

#8. That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.

Marc Guggenheim

#9. Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

Simon Cowell

#10. But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around
they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.

Ransom Riggs

#11. What animals make the best doctors? A. Ducks, they're natural quacks.

R. Eugene Pearson

#12. When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission to see the president except the president. Some weeks, I see him multiple times. Some weeks, I don't see him at all.

John Holdren

#13. God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

David Platt

#14. If you pile up too many tomorrows, you'll end up with a lot of empty yesterdays.

Elia Gourgouris

#15. With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.

Sean Hannity

#16. I really don't think there's a lack of good will between members of the parties. I go back a long way with a lot of Republicans, so I don't think it's personal. But there does seem to be a much greater gap in both the philosophy and emphasis on partisan victories as opposed to policy development.

John Yarmuth

#17. My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.

John Holdren

#18. It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

John Holdren

#19. Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

John Holdren

#20. The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.

John Holdren

#21. I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

John Holdren

#22. A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

Richard Fenton

#23. Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.

John Holdren

#24. Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

John Holdren

#25. A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

John Holdren

#26. A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States ... [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

John Holdren

#27. There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

Brett Favre

#28. People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

John Holdren