Charles III

I would suggest that the whole imposing edifice of modern medicine, for all its breathtaking successes is, like the celebrated Tower of Pisa, slightly off balance.

Speech to the British Medical Association, as cited in "Drugs: The Patient has had enough", The Times (16 December 1982), p. 12 , 1982

Climate change and biodiversity loss . . . pose an even greater existential threat than the COVID-19 pandemic, to the extent that we have to put ourselves on what might be called a war-like footing. . . . Putting a value on carbon . . . is absolutely critical. . . . We need a vast military style campaign to marshall the strength of the global private sector, which has trillions at its disposal . . . . Each sector needs a clear strategy to speed up the process of getting innovations to market and we need to align private investment behind these industry strategies. . . . If we can develop a pipeline of many more sustainable and "bankable" projects, at a sufficient scale, it will attract greater investment. . . . CEOs and institutional investors have told me that alongside the promises countries have made, their nationally determined contributions, they need clear market signals, agreed globally, so that they have the confidence to invest without the goal posts suddenly moving. . . . w:Charles III#We are working to drive trillions of dollars in support of transition across ten of the most emitting and polluting industries including energy, agriculture, transportation, health systems and fashion. . . . I can only urge you, as the world’s decision-makers, to find practical ways of overcoming differences so we can all . . . rescue this precious planet and save the threatened future of our young people.

Excerpted from a Sky News video of the speech on Youtube and the pre-submitted text of the speech from princeofwales.gov.uk. Text of the speech has subsequently been made available at the website for the UK Royal Family, under the title "A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales at the Opening Ceremony of COP26, Glasgow." (1 November 2021) , 2021

[In] the ceaseless rush to modernize [...] many beneficial approaches, which have been tried and tested and have shown themselves to be effective, have been cast aside because they are deemed to be old-fashioned or irrelevant to today's needs.

From a speech at the World Health Organization, Geneva (23 May 2006), as cited in "Lying in wait for Prince Charles", The New York Times (24 May 2006) , 2006

I don’t want to be confronted by my future grandchild and them say, "Why didn’t you do something?" So clearly now that we will have a grandchild, it makes it even more obvious to try to make sure we leave them something that isn’t a total poisoned chalice.

Interview on This Morning (ITV, 7 January 2013), cited in "Royal baby inspires environmental campaigning" The Times (6 January 2013) , 2013

Mrs. Parker Bowles is a great friend of mine...a friend for a very long time. She will continue to be a friend for a long time.

When asked about his relationship with Camilla during his interview with journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in 1994. , 1994