„For 25 years, countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations Climate Change conference asking our nations’ leaders to stop the emissions. But clearly this has not worked, since the emissions just continue to rise. So I will not ask them anything. Instead, I will ask the people around the world to realize that our political leaders have failed us, because we are facing an existential threat and there is no time to continue down this road of madness.“

— Greta Thunberg

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„People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.“
— George Soros
„I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?“
— Ronald Reagan
„We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of our political leaders’ legacy will be the greatest failure of human history. And they will be remembered as the greatest villains of all time, because they have chosen not to listen and not to act.“
— Greta Thunberg