A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have t…

- John Gummer

Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is t…

- John Gummer

A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of whi…

- John Gummer

It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.

- John Gummer

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there…

- John Gummer

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

- John Gummer

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

- John Gummer