Robert S. Bergland Quotes

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

See the possibilities of rural electrification. Life can be so much fuller and farm life so much more efficient on the farm as well as in the home if you can get cheap power.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

Perhaps never in the history of a nation founded by agrarian self-starters has the federal government propped up rural America to such a degree.

All the farmers in this area have electricity, even in their barns. There have been times where the writing of a book is just as important as the milking of a cow.

The U.S. government has at least 15 official definitions of the word "rural”. All these definitions matter; they’re used by various agencies to parcel out $37 Billion-Plus in federal money for “rural development”. And each one of them is different.

A bright future for the nation depends on the health and prosperity of rural America.

We believe that rural India is going to be the next driver of growth. You cannot make money overnight there, as you have to set up infrastructure there; the value of transactions is lower - you need a few years before you can really make all those businesses profitable.

Dust is part of rural America. It is completely unreasonable for the EPA to put a price tag on communities for carrying out activities essential to their well-being. This is a prime example of federal regulations gone too far.

Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the country.

As a policy-maker in our country, I would much rather we have that investment in our refineries.

USDA Rural Development is responsible for helping rural counties and small communities provide public services and foster economic growth. Often these investments help fill gaps that are hard to overcome with a rural tax base.

Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be.

I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.

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.

I know a lot of people around the world have these problems where there's just no light, no electricity, nothing.

Every day, thousands of hardworking people make sure the power is there when we need it.

Reliable and competitively priced electricity is fundamental to growing our economy and creating jobs. Our customers expect nothing less.

Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages.