Condoleezza Rice Quotes

Energy is always geopolitics.

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

Show this administration an oil well, and it will show you a foreign policy.

The downsides of fossil fuels, notably their geopolitical and environmental risks, are not fully reflected in their market prices.

Historically, countries have made big energy shifts only when confronted with acute fossil-fuel crises: oil embargoes, debilitating pollution, or wars.

We've recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

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

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

We should be sending our energy dollars to the Mid-West, not to the Middle East.

Energy Independence

We can eliminate gasoline in this country in 25 years.

America is addicted to oil.

America is addicted to oil which is often imported from the most unstable part of the world.

American oil operations are, for all practical purposes, instruments of our foreign policy.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Just as the stone age did not end for lack of stones, the oil age will not end because of a scarcity of oil.

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

Every sector of our economy depends on affordable energy… The state of American energy must be good in order for our economy to thrive.

We are ready to kill to keep our automobiles running. We're ready to kill to keep up our materialistic, wasteful economy.... I am sick and tired of 18-year-olds being coerced into bearing the burden of the failures of politicians to face the tough economic choices needed to end our dependency on foreign oil.

The Department of Energy was created for one purpose: To obtain energy independence. Yet where are we?

... the rising costs and risks of these fossil fuels are undercutting the security and prosperity they have enabled. Each day, the United States spends about $2 billion buying oil and loses another $4 billion indirectly to the macroeconomic costs of oil dependence, the microeconomic costs of oil price volatility, and the cost of keeping military forces ready for intervention in the Persian Gulf.