Maria Cantwell Quotes

This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

The real moral is this: It does not matter how much oil is produced domestically and how much is imported. Presidents may declare that there is an “urgent need” to cut imports and boost “energy independence” — no one ever lost political support by seeing evil and blaming foreigners.

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

How the United States chose to deal with its growing reliance on foreign oil would determine its future.

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

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

The world’s dependence on Gulf oil will last for at least another generation.

On no one country, on no one region, on no one route … must we depend for our oil supply.

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

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 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.

We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

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

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic air and a public-health epidemic.

I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil.

What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

What does everyone in America own? A car. What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.