Christine Whitman Quotations

None of us wants to leave this world in worse shape than we found it,

My goal for next year, ... is to have at least one week a month where I spend every night in my own bed.

I'd be crazy not to consider it, but I'm not counting on that,

I have standards for performance, and I'm clearly not getting anywhere near them today. . . . I can play better than this.

I firmly believe that the agency's findings that the air quality was safe were correct.

I don't think we'll get to the protocol without mandatory caps.

I emphasized to members of the European community that I continue to be as optimistic as the president that, working constructively with our friends and allies through international processes, we can develop technologies, market-based incentives and other innovative approaches to global climate change.

There is a great deal of concern about this seeming attempt to couch everything in religious terms. We're not a narrow-minded nation, and at least some of the people trying to define the Republican Party are coming off that way.

has literally, we believe, avoided the spread of this very malicious virus to personal computers throughout ... the world.

We now have approximately 30 states where there are 40 different proposals on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. The worst thing in the world for business in this country is a patchwork quilt of regulations and standards. They want one standard. That's when they can make the kind of investment that will get us where we need to be.

When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.

We have communities where the entire community is under water, literally to the eaves of buildings.

We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.

Billions of dollars have been spent to subsidize sprawl. It's not about no-growth. It's about control.

This is far and away the worst natural disaster I've ever seen. Many people are just not going to be able to get into their houses for months.

The Republican Party has never been this narrow, litmus-test type party.

It's a fallacy that the president only wants to hear from you if you agree,

It looks as if it should be a very smooth process, and we're certainly hopeful for that,

It's a nightmare for any business. We need one standard nationally.

It's hard to get people to pay for changes they may never see,

by putting a premium on his beliefs, not a price on his bedroom.

He appreciates women who are not afraid to talk about the issues, ... social fundamentalism.

The good news continues to be that air samples we have taken have all been at levels that cause us no concern.

and if it keeps hanging around and getting close to the vice president, he might step aside - but that's an extreme case.