Rex Tillerson Quotes

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

We nor our bailiffs will take another man’s wood for Our castles or any other purpose without the owner’s consent.

I have very large ideas about the mineral wealth of the nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible.

What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.

We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained.

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.