Jay H. Lehr famous quotes

The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any significant reduction in CO2 emissions by the United States will significantly reduce its economic output, thereby bringing it closer to the inferior output of European nations.
-- Jay H. Lehr

#Hysteria #Special #Environmental

Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.
-- Jay H. Lehr

#Important #Attention #Enlightening

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Eating is an environmental act.

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.