National Energy Quotes

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

I know this will sound naïve, but I often wonder what America would be like if our national ethos was simply to minimize suffering. Period. To try, every day, to convert our wonderful wealth and national energy into the cessation of suffering wherever we find it. Imagine if that was our national mindset. Well, we can-we must-dream.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.