John Kerry

These deniers are undermining our ability to act forcefully, comprehensively, and in unity to address the forest fires...

China has indeed cornered that market.

The marketplace has made its decision. In America, it is not the Congress who has decided that coal plants are closing. It is the market.

We are deeply concerned by reports that the National Security Council officials are considering forming a committee to dispute and undermine military and intelligence judgments on the threat posed by climate change.

The Earth is now changing faster than at any point in the history of our modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities.

Substantial damages to the United States economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming decades.

Natural gas is obviously a critical bridge fuel to help us create a virtuous grid.

The question is how, which one, and at what rate are we going to transition to try to hit a low carbon, no carbon economy by 2050.

Well, I think it is one fair concern.

Should we be concerned that the White House climate panel would cater to the oil and gas industry like the Cheney taskforce did?

The rate of change, the rate of destruction that we're seeing around the world in every way, flooding, hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, we didn't even anticipate even close to that.

There are so many different ways to pay for it.

That is a political vote, and people chose to vote present because it was a meaningless vote. In effect, it was politics.

I think what is really important is if the committee came together and said, hey folks, let's kill the politics for the next two months and come up with a piece of legislation that puts infrastructure.

America needs to have carbon pricing.

What is going to win this battle is something called mission innovation.

I think that the key is to come together in a bipartisan way to move forward.

We can spend the next two years debating whether two plus two equals five.

The profound impact of the President of the United States pulling away from it and speaking the language of a denier has a profound negative impact on our ability to meet the challenge.

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has, in fact, offered more leadership in one day or in one week than President Trump has in his lifetime on this subject.

I signed a letter along with Secretary Kerry and 56 other senior national security officials asking that the President not dispute and undermine military and intelligent judgments on climate change.

Climate change is a real and present threat to our national security, which most likely will get worse.

As members of this committee know so well, this past year's extreme weather has seriously affected our military readiness.

One of the Department of State's highest priorities is the welfare of children involved in international parental child abduction cases.

There can be no safe haven for abductors.