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Energy Quotes


"As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy."


"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."


"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that."


"A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created."


"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that."


"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."


"We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources."


"The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office."


"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one."


"If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas."


"Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods."


"It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil."


"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."


"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."


"Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion."


"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."


"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."


"I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill."


"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."


"No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together."



"Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?"


"Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator."


"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."


"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable."


"The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement."


"It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics."


"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"


"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing."


"The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure."


"We get more oil from Canada than any country."


"U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy."


"You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness."


"Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies."


"We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy."


"In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles."


"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems."
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