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I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin
Country
,
Once
,
Someday
I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Robin Williams
Country
,
Once
,
Large
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki
Brain
,
Old
,
Used
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
Jeff Goodell
Everything
,
America
,
Hell
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
Jeff Goodell
Getting
,
Times
,
Three
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.
Jeff Goodell
End
,
May
,
Ocean
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
Dan Lipinski
Home
,
America
,
Complete
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Dan Lipinski
Special
,
Place
,
Unique
For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.
Brian Mulroney
Strength
,
Future
,
Year
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.
Lois Capps
Future
,
Country
,
Why
The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson
Rather
,
Fact
,
View
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Jim Ramstad
Good
,
Cannot
,
Vote
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
Brian Mulroney
Future
,
Vision
,
Based
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
Ann Bancroft
Education
,
Journey
,
Return
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
H. P. Blavatsky
Science
,
Sea
,
Beyond
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
Bob Ney
Good
,
United
,
Create
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
Russ Feingold
Important
,
Through
,
Special
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
Don Young
Age
,
Courage
,
Science
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
Don Young
God
,
Remember
,
Found
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
Robin Day
Time
,
Places
,
Climbed
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
Susan Collins
Action
,
Call
,
Changes
I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.
Kevin Patterson
Fact
,
Times
,
Both
Going to the Arctic was immense for me.
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Immense
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Harry Johnston
Far
,
Lies
,
Within
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
Wade Davis
Fear
,
Made
,
Once
Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.
Ranulph Fiennes
Happen
,
Same
,
While
The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Robert Dold
Care
,
Nation
,
Space
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.
Robert Dold
Balance
,
President
,
Republican
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