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‘We all breathe the same air’
-- Mike -- 03/28/2007
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman interviewed California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently about his efforts to build a "Republican-Democratic coalition in California to blunt climate change." Friedman writes about it in today's column. Money quote:"The debate is over," [Schwarzenegger] said to me. "I mean, how many more thousands and thousands of scientists do we need to say, ‘We have done a study that there is global warming?' "
What is "amazing for someone that does not come from a political background like myself," said Governor Schwarzenegger, is that "this line is being drawn" between Democrats and Republicans on climate change. "You say to yourself: ‘How can it be drawn on the environment?' But it is. But the great thing is more and more Republicans are coming on board for this. Seeing how important this is. And more and more Democrats and Republicans are working together. ... I said in my inaugural address: ‘There isn't such a thing as Republican clean air or Democratic clean air. We all breathe the same air.' Let's get our act together, fix this problem and fight global warming."
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