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Energy Quotes


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


"Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel."


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


"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."


"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."


"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."


"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."


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


"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."


"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."


"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef."


"The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally."


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


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


"We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources."


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


"And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous."


"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."


"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."


"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast."


"Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR."


"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."


"We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days."


"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."


"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves."


"I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem."


"That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"


"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."


"A positive attitude will elevate your energy and invigorate your tasks."


"But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil."



"People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti)."


"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."


"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies."


"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."


"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."
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