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 BROWNI will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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.
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When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
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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.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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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.
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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.
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