Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth May - Page 2

The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada.

If we're serious about our kids having a livable world, building fossil fuel infrastructure in 2018 is a sign of deep negligence, which is the kindest thing I can say about it.

It is personal - deep in my bones and my flesh - the knowledge that we squandered our chance to avoid the climate emergency; to act when it would have been so much easier, as we did to stop acid rain, to save the ozone layer.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.

I wanted to repeat we cannot vote confidence at any point on a confidence motion in a government that fails to have a climate target that's ground in science and consistent with what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must do.

I love being a parliamentarian. I love it but I don't like politics. And I hate elections.

We oppose any pipeline whose sole purpose is to export bitumen from Canada to make profits in other countries.

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy... and it didn't work.

Sovereigntism and separatism they are... it may seem like it's splitting hairs, but a lot of Quebecers are sovereignists - they respect the sovereignty of Quebec. They're not interested in separating.

I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.

I wouldn't want anyone to think I was less than respectful for the people with whom I work.

I believed Justin Trudeau in 2015. I thought he would be a climate leader. I was wrong.

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous.

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

We appeal to Conservatives who just can't see themselves voting for the corruption and the scandals and the contempt of parliamentary institutions. And of course, we also appeal to people in other parties who are disappointed in their own leadership.

To improve humanity's chances of survival, it is critical that Canada assume a leadership role, first ramping up our own ambition and then pushing for more ambition overall in global negotiations.

I've never made any statements about the abortion issue at any time in my life - never retreating one inch - from a woman's rights to legal abortion. Ever.

I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing.

I would urge Rachel Notley to be more like Peter Lougheed. Lougheed had a sensible plan for the oil sands, which involved ancillary infrastructure like upgraders and refineries.

Politics is awful.

I'm not interested in a balance of power in order to have power for the Green party. What I'm interested in is the balance of responsibility.

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

The real dynamic is that when Greens are in the debates, Conservatives don't do as well.

People who are good at maintaining a deep oil well will also be very helpful in converting it to a geothermal green energy source. People who have been laying pipe, it's the same skill as putting up a wind turbine.

I was part of Environment Canada's work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer.

I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.

I actually find that Canadians are incredibly interested in democracy, and alarmed when they realize that the Prime Minister's Office is controlling virtually everything that goes on within the federal government.

It's not a big deal for me to be leader of the Green Party. It is a big deal for me to represent the voters of Saanich-Gulf Islands.

It's clear that the Green party loves Quebecers deeply. At the same time, we are Canadians!

We were the first party to call for equal marriage.

It's not as if being leader of the Green party is something that I do because I love being leader of the Green party. I love the Green party and this is a service.

I was known as an activist, described by CBC's 'The Fifth Estate' as 'the 23-year-old waitress who stopped the pulp company dead in its tracks.' Without knowing it was even possible, my activism helped me gain admission to Dalhousie University law school.

I am always interested in looking for the strongest possible leadership.

There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?

God, we don't have nearly enough skilled carpenters, electricians, plumbers for the work that needs to be done in taking every single building in Canada and making it carbon-zero, a net-neutral building, by improving insulation, modernizing furnaces, improving the geothermal possibilities, heat pumps.

The only party that has better bragging rights than the Greens is the Bloc Quebecois.

I don't love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I'd recommend to a good friend. It's not fun.

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.

If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.