“I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.” IfsThinkingAmbitionMeetingsClimateClimate ChangeSignificantAmbitiousHistoricGreat AmbitionSignificant Things Author:Christy Clark
“I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayMeanCountryHugeCitizensImpactAccountability Author:Christy Clark
“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsCountryGrowthPoorEconomicPolicyTaxesAddEnvironmentalPocketsMore MoneyCarbonSlow DownConsensusEconomic GrowthMinusEnvironmental PolicyCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardViewsEnvironmentEconomicFiguresProtectProjectsMy ChildrenThings To DoBroadsHard ThingsProtect The Environment Author:Christy Clark
“I just think about how many women in their workplaces have been working to get a promotion, and they look around, and then this guy comes.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensGuyWorkplaceThis GuyPromotion Author:Christy Clark
“I'm not a believer that you should set quotas for these things, because I think what happens is no matter how qualified the woman is who gets the job, people will say she [Hillary Clinton] shouldn't have gotten it. She only got it because she's a woman. That is the problem with quotas.” PeopleThinkingShouldMatterProblemHappensJobsClintonBelieverQualifiedQuota Author:Christy Clark
“I think we should be worried about the fact that we have become, as a society, very focused on the way people look, the way they dress. I do think we should worry about that because we should be worried about content. We should be worried about ideas. We should not be putting form over function.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldLooksIdeasFactsFormWorryFunctionDressesFocusedWorried Author:Christy Clark
“The way I would characterize what you said about me is I do try to say what I think as clearly as I can without first thinking, "Uh-oh, which way is the wind blowing and are people going to like this?"” PeopleThinkingWayTryingFirstsSaidI CanWindWind Blowing Author:Christy Clark
“There are limits to what we can do. That's for sure. That is true. One of the downsides of a growing economy [is that] we're accommodating a lot more people. They're buying houses and the market is growing. That is part of the downside of that, but I think that all of us do have to decide to act on it.” PeopleThinkingHouseCan DoEconomyGrowingLimitsBuyingTrue OnesGrowing EconomyBuying A House Author:Christy Clark
