Quotes by Zac Goldsmith - Page 1

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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Organize
Private Life
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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Acres
Parks
Royal
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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Trust
Policy
Cause
Detested
Politicians
Main
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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Day To Day
Sight
Term
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Citizens
Corporations
World More Place
World Place More
Largest
Loyalties
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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North America
North
Programme
Similar
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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Standards
Avoid
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Seven
Buys
Invested
Pound
Solution
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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Horse
Lovely
Views
Holidays
Make A Difference
Races
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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Capacity
Improving
Airport
Busiest
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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Society
Bags
Forgotten
Legacy
Plastic
Terrible
Used
Waste
Greatest
Leave
Generate
Perhaps
Symbol
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Sleazy
Politicians
No Law
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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Environmental
Election
Environmental Issues
Green
Presidential
Presidential Election
Refusal
Response
Suicidal
Bush
George
Largely
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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Congestion
Term
Immediately
Massively
Notice
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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Making A Difference
Appeared
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Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
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Abuse
Justified
Vindication
Religion World People
Appalling
Prejudices
Scriptures
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Majority
Providing
Believes
Consumer
Vast
Genetically
Modified
Vast Majority
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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Luxurious
Bought
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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Fashionable
Leonardo
Phenomenon
Thread
Accessory
Rare
Celebrities
Dicaprio
Leonardo Dicaprio
Runs
Whereas
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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
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Accustomed
Broken
Flight
Noise
Promise
Residents
Beneath
Unacceptable
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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Environmental
Ecological
Online
Abroad
Extensive
Political Agenda
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Conservative Party
Green
Thread
Battling
Imagining
Minority
Possibly
Signed
Weave
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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Capacity
Passengers
Ample
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I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
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Cynical
Face Value
Impressed
Politicians
Thoroughly
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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Abstract
Academic
Administration
Climate Change
Concern
Reports
Bush
Influences
Programme
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A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.
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Diet
Beef
Chosen
Cows
Fairly
Concerns
Fed
Grave
Import
Indeed
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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Cameron
Instinct
Intuition
Judge
David
Cover
Pretty Good
Whoever
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Cyprus
Greece
Hub
Account
Contribute
Flights
Overall
Preserve
Status
Weekly
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Behaviour
Green
Tax Breaks
Breaks
Cleaner
Way Doing Right
Effective
For Example
Polluting
Shift
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Environmental
Campaigning
Lobbying
Pushing
Change Politics Always
Colours
More Or Less
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Environmental
Corporations
Economy
Environmental Problems
Feeding
Handful
Process
Tackling
Tiny
Wicked
Control
Food Always World
Global
Giant
Problems
Question
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Belief
Religious Belief
Work Good Country
Clearly
Religions
Drawn
Politicians
Guided
Hugely
Mix
Scriptures
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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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Failure
Agreement
Climate Change
Confusing
Denied
Despite
European Union
Free Trade
Joining
Nuclear
Obvious
Serious
Strengthening
Conservatives
Issue
North
North American
Oppose
Union
Solution
Suggested
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Animal
Britain
Cruelty
Elsewhere
Exporting
Free Market
High Standards
Standards
Undermining
Welfare
Free
Applied
High
Import
Market
Reasonably
Same Time
System
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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Environmental
Blame
Colossal
Environmental Issues
Green
Losing
Monsters
Waiting
Dragging
Politicians
Transform
Votes
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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Cost
Printed
Venture
Good Business Money
Campaign
Edition
Business Good Money
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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Bizarre
Communist
Communist Party
Corporate
Innocent
Marxism
Revolutionary
Extreme
Life Science Political
Eighties
Magazine
Network
Switched
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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Cows
Eggs
Green
Logos
Revealing
Significant
Staggering
Surveys
Identify
Instinctively
Lay
Margin
Teenagers
Trees
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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Alternatives
Emphasis
Excuse
Green
Improving
Punishment
Stealth
Absolute
Condition
Domestic
Flights
Trains
Switch
Taxed
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'
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Cost
Adjusted
Cleanest
Polluting
Rightly
Yours
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Environmental
Appetite
Green
Media
Newspapers
Recognition
Solutions
Stomach
Surprising
Unwilling
Beyond
Challenge
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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Cooking
Curriculum
Farms
Good Quality
Skills
Good Food Cooking
Good Food Quality
Sustainable
Include
Local
Sources
Wherever
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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Business
Access
Big Business
Complaining
Differences
Economic
Giving
Political
Red
Red Tape
Risk
Subsidies
Tape
Now
Being
Businesses
Classified
Cultures
Drown
Gain
Global Market
Small
Individuals
Market
Small Businesses
Terrorists
Traditions
While
Worlds
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