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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Bob Brown

The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWN

Clouds Government Land
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
BOB BROWN

Be Good Politically Presumption
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
BOB BROWN

Age Earth Past Resulting Together
Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
BOB BROWN

Chosen Country Learning Money
Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
BOB BROWN

Bodies Fashion Left Resonate Shopping
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.
BOB BROWN

Bang People Years
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
BOB BROWN

Eye Grandchildren Heart
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
BOB BROWN

Ambition Champion Economics
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
BOB BROWN

Changed Homosexually Lifetime Optimistic Repression
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
BOB BROWN

Environment Lucky Reality
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.
BOB BROWN

God Mean Men Religious
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.
BOB BROWN

Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
BOB BROWN

Reaction Spontaneous States Wealth
For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
BOB BROWN

Black Breakfast Coffee Cream Filled
$Bob Brown Quote - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.$

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
BOB BROWN

Children Dollar Money Sunken War
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.
BOB BROWN

Community Democracy Depth
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
BOB BROWN

Age Billion News Voters
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
BOB BROWN

Difficult Kids Thinking
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.
BOB BROWN

Environmental Innovation Technology
Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
BOB BROWN

Gold Humanity Oil Renewable Resources
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
BOB BROWN

Action Democracy Earth
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWN

Absorber Shock Want
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
BOB BROWN

Future Gun Life Real Security
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
BOB BROWN

Environmental People Positive
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
BOB BROWN

Dies Green Long
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
BOB BROWN

Mets Persons Reflected

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