I’m worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
I’m a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods – it is the business of us all, here and now.
I’ve always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.