J. C. Watts Quotes

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

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

It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

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.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

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

The size of the energy sector in Mexico is just so vast; it has an outsize impact on the rest of the Mexican economy.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

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.

We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.

The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight.

Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

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.

The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

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.

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

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