I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person‘s right to know. I believe that in the absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves, our families and our health, which is the greatest gift we have.

You will definitely find moments where somebody else is going to try to suppress you or put you down, but you have a choice in how you see yourself.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

If you can go out there and stand up for what it is you believe in no matter how many times you are knocked down, in the end the swinging of your own blows will exhaust them.

I have never moved away from my mainstay – trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking.

What people don’t understand is like when water gets polluted, it’s an entire aquifer. There’s a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don’t see, therefore we don’t relate.

If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed… It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.

I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley’s drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.

Corporations in communities need to be better neighbors.

Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.

The movie had a much bigger impact on me than I ever thought that it did.

I’m concerned that we don’t address the water pollution problems in other countries. If we move forward and don’t clean up the messes of the past, they’ll just get swept under the rug.

The Porter Ranch situation is the BP oil spill on land.

The worst sense of security is a false one. It’s hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that those in charge – federal, state and local agencies – might be cheating the system. But, all too often, that is exactly what happens.

I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it’s gone, game over. I don’t care what company you run; I don’t care if you’re Republican or liberal.

If you believe you’re right…stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don’t win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

There’s a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that’s mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it.

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

It is high time SoCalGas is held responsible for its actions.

It’s been a wild journey for me. I’m trying to take what I’ve learned and help teach, inspire, and lead the way for the next women. And that does begin with the cliche of loving yourself.

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

This is our country, our water. We’re entitled to a good life. It’s a human rights issue.

I still describe myself as the activist with cleavage. Breast implants made me feel a lot sexier.

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

Companies could step up to the plate time and time again and help out by cleaning up a groundwater system that’s contaminated, being more transparent with the community when they have a problem, respecting that community, getting them out of harm‘s way.

I don’t believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I’ve started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.

I don’t feel the need to defend myself anymore – I am a woman. I feel differently and I think differently than a man. If you’re going to bully me or laugh at me because something makes me emotional – you go right ahead because that’s what makes me a woman, and I don’t want to be anything but that.

I get thousands of emails. Half my work is environment-related; the rest is pharmaceutical problems. There’s so much of it. No one law firm can handle it now.

When I discovered that hexavalent chromium was causing cancer in the town of Hinkley, California, it led to residents being paid $333m in compensation. But, unbelievably, that chemical remains in our drinking water.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

It’s hard not to let criticism make you feel bad about yourself – I do continue to struggle with that as an older woman in the workplace.

Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.