Dixie Lee Ray Quotes

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Nature did not make me willowy.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to - compliance

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It is no coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.