T. Boone Pickens Quotes

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

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

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

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.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

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

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America.

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'

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

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.