Political Quotes

“Well, let me say, I welcome everyone to the floor. Let me conclude my little part today at this time by saying we have seen the faith communities come out very strongly for the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill--the Evangelical Environmental Network, the Evangelical Climate Initiative, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of Churches, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Interfaith Power and Light Campaign. These are just some. I think we have had some very wonderful meetings with them and press conferences with them. The way they look at the world is this: It is God's creation that is at stake, and they feel very moved and very bound to respond. It is rare you see this kind of coalition coming forward. But they look at God's creatures, and they say: We have a responsibility. They look at human beings all over the world who will suffer mightily if we do not get a grip on this global warming because we know, with rising sea levels, we will have refugees who will be stranded. We know in our own country we will have thousands die of heat strokes. We will have many thousands die from vectors and problems of new kinds of amoebas and so on that will now be present in the warmer waters. We had an incident, and I believe it was at Lake Havasu, where we had some little child who went swimming and got a brain infection, who got that because the waters are getting warmer. So this is not theoretical. It is real.…”