Gerald R. Ford Quotes

Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.

We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

We should be sending our energy dollars to the Mid-West, not to the Middle East.

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.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

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

We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

We won’t conserve our way to energy independence.

Barring a miracle, this nation can never be self-sufficient in energy again.

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

Why would we build a thousand mile pipeline taking almost a million barrels of oil from the most carbon intensive fuel source on the planet when wind energy is a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot cleaner.

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.

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

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

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

We have to look at the long-term energy requirements of our country and how we figure out how to get off foreign oil. That is the ultimate goal because we are dependent so much on foreign oil that we are really strapped in what we can do as a country.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.