Energy Quotes

"As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me"

Forest Whitaker, Actor

"We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house"

Shelley Berkley, Politician

"Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it"

Sean Paul, Musician

"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism"

Zack Wamp

"When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got"

Hal Sutton, Athlete

"With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy"

Zack Wamp

"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite"

Hal Sutton, Athlete

"I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days"

David F. Houston, Politician

"I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy"

Rosamund Pike, Actress

"The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects"

Rosa DeLauro, Politician

"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment"

Walther Bothe, Physicist

"Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks"

Bob Beauprez, Politician

"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere"

Abdolkarim Soroush, Philosopher

"Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world"

Howard Berman, Politician

"Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era"

David Amram, Composer

"A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created"

Mark Foley, Politician

"Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country"

Richard Lugar, Politician

"Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion"

Marty Meehan, Politician

"The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that"

LL Cool J, Musician

"But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"

Randy West, Entertainer

"Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects"

Benjamin Cohen, Journalist

"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well"

John Salazar, Politician

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