Dana Perino Quotes

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

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.

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

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

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

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

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

Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that we can live with in the long term. If you look at the available pieces, from conservation to nuclear, solar, whatever, and you put them all together, we can't do it.

Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.

Strong policies and innovation can make the difference for energy security, climate change, air quality, and universal access to modern energy services in parallel - in short, building a secure, affordable, sustainable energy system that is available to all.

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.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a short-run solution now, and one that encourages and facilitates the transition to the long-run solution.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

We have to transform our energy system.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.