Political Quotes

“I rise today for the 300th time with my trusty, increasingly battered 'Time to Wake Up' chart to try to rouse this Chamber to the looming dangers caused by fossil fuel pollution. I will say that Speaker Pelosi, whom I admire immensely, called out my persistent and relentless work on climate. But on the other hand, it is hard, given our peril, not to feel a bitter sense of failure about where we are. The arc of these speeches has gone from climate science and warnings through effects in oceans and specific localities, particularly red State localities, to the political obstruction that went toxic in 2010, and then from that political obstruction through to the climate denial apparatus behind it, and behind that, to the dark money from the creepy billionaires who have been driving the obstruction, and then an exploration into essentially the covert op of climate denial and dark money and Supreme Court capture. The result is that we have been through some eras along the way. Era No. 1 would be the science era which lasted quite a long time. By the way, God bless the scientists. They got it right. Even the Exxon scientists got it right. Then, that era ended, and the era of climate politics began. That is what has been the bitter failure.”