“Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.” PersonsCountryUseEarthEnergyNationsWasteStandardsAlternativesGermanyJapanOther CountriesStandards Of LivingImportsSweden Author:Jimmy Carter
“For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.” WarMightHumanityNationsWasteBenefitsSakeRageScriptureEmploymentCommerceAgricultureHookConquestManlySpearsPruning Book:Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious Source: Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious
“When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldWould BeNationsGrowingLandWasteResourcesSurfaceCommitMarsSettlementColonizationUnforgivable Author:Buzz Aldrin
“It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.” IfsWellsIdeasNationsPresidentWonderWasteDiversityPicksCandidatesZeroPopularityImpressiveQualifiedPresident BushBucksJudicialCroniesSaggingBright Ideas Author:Michelle Malkin
“Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.” WellsAmericaOrderStrongNationsClassCitizensWastePercentThirdsSeeking Author:Jackie Robinson
“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.” PeopleKnowsYearsUseNationsWaterCitiesMillionsTechnologyOur LivesEconomicDangerIndustryDrinkWasteRiversMachinesTownsEnvironmentalSmokeSettlingStreamsCarrieFactoriesPollutionCarbonConvenienceMotorUnfoldingShroudsGrime Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.” PeopleStatesWould BeValuesNationsNaturalWealthShareWasteRedAgreeBlueBlessedExtraordinaryFoolishEfficiencyConservation Author:Van Jones
“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.” ShouldHumansSaidStillsWarStatesShowsEarthLawPoliticalDesireOrderLeftNationsSocialSecretCompassionVirtueTaxesWasteArmyPoliceCourtMythInevitableSelfishnessObedienceCorporatePropagandaAssumptionJailDisorderAppetiteArrangementsSomething BetterTreatiesCivicsHideousLaw And OrderSecret PoliceCivic Virtue Author:Daniel Berrigan
“Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.” ActionNationsAnimalCommonClearWasteCleanCongressFarmersSiteLiabilityHazardous Waste Author:Ike Skelton
“The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.” MayImportantAmericaScienceNationsIssuesEnvironmentExampleHealthIndustryConflictProveWasteProgramSafetyThreatCleanEnvironmentalProfitAdministrationWelfareAccomplishmentReachingChemicalsToxicSiteLegislationUrgentReductionHealth And SafetyPublic WelfareToxic Waste Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
“If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.” IfsWayUseLightTogetherScienceFallEnergyNationsGoalImaginationSunImagineWindHard WorkSucceedWastePercentStreamsProductiveWorking TogetherEfficientTechnologicalRushingHarness Author:Jimmy Carter
“Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.” LooksMadeScienceNationsLevelsResultsEffortProgressDangerMaterialsCivilizationDiseaseWasteCapacityRaisedCastsProductiveSubstitutesChemistryConquestExhaustionChemistBountyGreat Progress Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.” HumansWellsIndividualNationsPovertyEconomyCivilizationWasteMemorableDenied Author:Gough Whitlam
“The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime.” PeopleWorldMindStatesUseYoungNationsWealthUnitedUnited StatesTalentCrimeStupidPossibilitySourceWasteCorporationsGiantsGlobalizationInfrastructureMergersGreatest Wealth Author:Isaac Stern
“Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.” NamesNationsBlackPartyEffortRaceGroupsEventsIdentityRepublicanWasteResourcesIncreaseStrategyAfrican AmericanAppealsFollyWasting TimeRepresentationRepublican PartyHurricanesExplicitMisguidedAftermathImplicitKatrinaHurricane KatrinaEthnic GroupsOutreachEthnic IdentityRecent Events Author:Ward Connerly
“We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.” WorldGivingShouldAgeAmericaGirlNationsAcceptingBirthWasteEducatedBirthdayWasting Time60th BirthdayTime And Money Author:Jane Fonda
“This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.” AmericaNationsWasteResourcesDefenseDisasterTolerateInvitationsAutonomousSpendthrift Author:Louis A. Johnson
“A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.” WorldChildrenCountryLastsEnergyNationsBornPlanetsReturnWasteRaisesLifetimeClimate ChangeLifestyleVulnerableBurningDevelopingPushingWealthyOur WorldOur Planet Author:George Carey
“War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.” WarNationsDifferencesWasteResourcesSupremeResolveStandpointPragmaticWaste Of Life Author:Jacque Fresco