#ironmen

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#environment #first #go #grasp #his

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#because #bureaucracy #cabinet #committee #environment

I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#areas #cost #done #environment #explain

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#control #environmentalist #everything #happens #himself

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#environment #gave #government #happen #integral

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#culture #environment #important #less #long

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#doing #environment #gay #gay movement #just

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#background #comedian #environment #family #family background

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments. ↗

— Marc Newson

#asked #different #environments #experiencing #i

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment. ↗

— Bob Ney

#america #being #bottom #bottom line #children