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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.