Will Hurd Quotes

We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our crude oil, yet we have allies around the globe asking the United States to provide them with a stable supply of energy.

Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security.

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

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

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still-stagnant economy, President Barack Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point.

It is clear that our national security and economic growth are tied to affordable, abundant energy sources.

Energy independence is very important to me.

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.

We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.

Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.

I'm very, very strong on energy independence, as you know, and I think that's the most conservative position. And I have the most conservative position on that.

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

All of us have got to pay into a certain system, and what we're saying is it's 100% American that every American should be able to create, store and sell their own energy as they see fit. Let's decentralize energy. Let's democratize energy.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.