Pollutant Quotes

#1. Carbon dioxide is ... being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

Dana Rohrabacher

#2. I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Jim Webb

#3. Everything on our dinner table-the meat, cheese, salad, bread, and soft drink-requires carbon dioxide to be there. For those of you who believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, we have a special diet: water and salt!

Joanne Nova

#4. CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

Rick Santorum

#5. Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

Gina McCarthy

#6. The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

Barry Commoner

#7. The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

John Coleman

#8. Guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

Ann Landers

#9. Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

Richard Dawkins

#10. CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.

Joe Barton

#11. How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

#12. He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

Louis Farrakhan

#13. getting lost is not always a bad thing

Ivan Vladislavic

#14. And this other evening light, rainy, rose and silver, and to her left a river the color of cold lead. Dark tumble of city, towers in the distance, few lights.

William Gibson

#15. We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#16. Ted was no longer on the ground at all. He rolled his eyes and moaned, dimly aware of giggling outside the closet. His feet were a good six inches off the ground, his ass singing as Kevin used all of his weight and his power to pound away at Ted's body. Ten

Ethan Scarsdale

#17. Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#18. A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Marcus Garvey

#19. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

Anurag Shourie

#20. World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Harry Browne

#21. Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero