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Energy Quotes


"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."


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


"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."


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


"My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling."


"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."


"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."


"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."


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


"The more energy taken, the less energy that is left for us to implement our goals and the smaller the probability of realization of our innate potential."


"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."


"As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices."


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


"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."


"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."


"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!"


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy."


"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."


"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."


"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 oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy."
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