Tom Steyer Quotes

Tom Steyer

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 27, 1957

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

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The truth is that transitioning to clean energy like wind and solar will create millions of new, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and spur economic growth - all while avoiding the inevitable, significant damages our economy will suffer should we keep building more pipelines.

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Investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure will not strengthen our economy over the long-term, since the market is clearly indicating that clean energy sources are the future.

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Climate change carries implications that stretch far beyond extreme weather, however. The effects on public health are far more alarming - and those have to be taken into account in order to calculate an accurate estimate of the costs of inaction.

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We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!

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The most powerful thing in politics is voter-to-voter contact. People take in ideas and formulate opinions by contact with other people they perceive to be trustworthy - other voters, people from their communities.

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I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

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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.

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I'm a 30-year businessperson. I believe in American business. I believe in American ingenuity, and I believe in American innovation.

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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.

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We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

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Americans can take on huge projects. But they need to understand why they should take on a huge project.

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If you're struggling to make your mortgage payment, and you've got three kids between the ages of 12 and 18, and you and your spouse works, and someone says, 'Oh, by the way, the world's ending,' it's like, 'Please. You don't need to tell me that.'

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That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us.

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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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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.

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We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

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The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.

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The fact of the matter is, people care about their own human interests: the people they love, their families, and their communities.

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I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

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