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" Tragically, no industry has done more to block crucial action to address climate change than the oil industry. "
Tom Steyer
Action
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Change
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" With many serious challenges facing our country - pressing issues like climate change, income inequality, and education - Trump has expressed neither the inclination nor the ability to take on these problems. "
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Problems
Education
Challenges
" We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset. "
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Heavy
Will
Insist
" I'm willing to do just about anything to try and contribute to getting us back on a growth path that is just and good for America. "
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Path
Good
America
" Demanding that our leaders take action on climate change is about a lot more than polar bears and ice caps; it's about safeguarding our health, preserving our prosperity, and protecting the future of our children. "
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Future
Change
Health
" My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a lifelong smoker - up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to think that, if Mom were still with us today, she'd be happy with the strides we've made to protect our children from the ongoing health crisis of tobacco addiction. "
Tom Steyer
Mother
Children
Day
" I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time. "
Tom Steyer
Life
Think
Time
" I think I was on this very straightforward escalator - grammar school, high school, college, get a job on Wall Street, kind of everything leads to the next thing. But at what point do you get to step back and say, 'I'd like to take a broader view of my time on this planet?' "
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Step
College
Job
" Republican politicians often evoke the Bible when it suits their purposes. But they disregard some of its most important teachings when formulating policy. This includes the story of Noah's Ark. "
Tom Steyer
Policy
Important
Story
" When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.' "
Tom Steyer
Government
Business
Want
" We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process. "
Tom Steyer
Process
Believe
Change
" As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to 'fix the rigged system.' By 'fix,' he apparently meant rigging it to permanently benefit billionaires like himself. "
Tom Steyer
System
Donald Trump
Fix
" I've spent a lot of time studying corporations and what makes them tick. "
Tom Steyer
Corporations
Time
Studying
" Though much about Donald Trump is chaotic and unpredictable, his overall agenda as a businessman and politician is clear and consistent: He wants to make himself more powerful, and he doesn't care how he does it. "
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Unpredictable
Care
More
" The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most Americans and worsens economic inequality. "
Tom Steyer
Economic
Inequality
Job
" In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn't know how to make climate change resonate with voters - if they mentioned it at all. "
Tom Steyer
Change
Back
Climate Change
" Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend. "
Tom Steyer
American
Public
Tax
" Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives. "
Tom Steyer
Vision
Achieving
Clarity
" Trump's vitriol attracts large crowds and may even win him the Republican presidential nomination but dishonors our best traditions. It spits in the face of every protection and opportunity our Constitution promises. "
Tom Steyer
Best
Face
Opportunity
" We must transform the relationship between police and the communities they serve. "
Tom Steyer
Relationship
Police
Serve
" Here's the truth: Keystone XL won't make America energy-independent. It will threaten our land and livelihoods to pump Canadian tar sands' heavy crude through America and out to foreign countries, like China. "
Tom Steyer
China
America
Like
" Faced with global challenges, politicians like Donald Trump have played on the fears and concerns of the American people with divisive, hateful rhetoric and proposals. "
Tom Steyer
Rhetoric
Challenges
American
" American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs. "
Tom Steyer
Democracy
Ability
Informed
" I think Donald knows climate change is a serious threat - but he only cares about protecting his luxury coastal properties, not the rest of America. Observing his actions as they relate to his business interests offers the best insight into the man behind the bluster. "
Tom Steyer
Rest
Business
Best
" The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic. "
Tom Steyer
Dialogue
Climate Change
Change
" Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and let 'the market' decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles. "
Tom Steyer
Trying
Say
Run
" Donald Trump may be unusually flamboyant, but his views are all too representative of the party that is about to nominate him for president. "
Tom Steyer
President
Donald Trump
Him
" What Bernie Sanders is talking about, which is trying to get back to a more perfect democracy, is something that we support, too. We just think that the idea of... wishing the rules were different and then pretending they were is something which, unfortunately, probably would be disastrous from the standpoint of energy and climate. "
Tom Steyer
Rules
Democracy
Think
" Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic. "
Tom Steyer
Politics
Magic
Organization
" Bringing climate change to the forefront of American politics means making politicians feel the heat - in their campaign coffers and at the polls - and it's time we voters make a change. "
Tom Steyer
American
Time
Politics
" As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race. "
Tom Steyer
Attention
Want
You