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Energy Quotes


"As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American."


"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."


"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."



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


"I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer."


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


"If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit."


"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."


"Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want."



"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."


"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it."


"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."


"If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground."


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



"Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you."


"While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance."


"When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England."


"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."


"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."


"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him."


"There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels."


"We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country."


"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."


"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."



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



"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."


"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign."


"We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week."



"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings."


"The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams."



"We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate."


"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."


"We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest."



"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house."


"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."


"Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense."


"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."


"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy."


"On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy."



"If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up."



"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."
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