Urgent Action Quotes

The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

The Nation trembled on the brink. Events moved with such speed that it was necessary to decide to act on the instant, as each successive crisis arose.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

We conclude that his [Patrice Lumumba’s] removal must be an urgent and prime objective of our covert action..

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

In great crises, a man who has to act or speak stands bare and stripped of choice.

The window is closing.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently.