Jennifer Granholm Quotes

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

Global warming, climate change, it's a total.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

Houston, we have a problem.

Something will break very bad.

All the fatt's in the fire.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.