Jay Inslee Quotes

...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be the impact of energy on the environment.

Our oil policy should be to find more and use less.

I want to work hard toward my goal that there will be zero nuclear power generation.

If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference.

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I'm committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges.

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections, and I've been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources.

My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind - was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

I've been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It's an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.

We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.

We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.

I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.

To maintain our economic and national security, we must maximize all of our nation's energy resources, including renewable sources, alternative fuels, and fossil fuels, all in a way that balances economic development and protecting our environment.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.