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Energy Quotes



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


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


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


"With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil."


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


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


"It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy."



"The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States."



"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills."


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


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



"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."



"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."


"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."



"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."


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


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


"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."


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



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



"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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 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."


"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."



"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."


"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."


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



"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."


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign 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."
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