Energy quotes

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Don't waste energy moving unless necessary.

- Ron Swanson

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

- Rick Perry

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

- Greg Walden

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

- Daniel Yergin

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

- Warren Buffett

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.

- Kenny Marchant

I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.

- John Edward

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

- Rick Perry

And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

- Ed Rendell

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

- Shelley Berkley

The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

- Greg Walden

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

- Shannon Miller

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

- Anatoly Chubais

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.

- Judy Biggert

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

- Daniel Yergin

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

- William Feather

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

- William J. Clinton

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

- Anatoly Chubais

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

- Benjamin Franklin

Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

- Greg Walden

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

- Daniel Yergin

With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.

- Greg Walden

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

- Daniel Yergin

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

- Walt Kelly

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

- John Shimkus

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

- Greg Walden

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

- Greg Walden

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.

- Herman Cain

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

- Ben Nelson