Energy Politics Quotes

#1. In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Jeff Goodell

#2. In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

Barack Obama

#3. Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.

Ozzie Zehner

#4. History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

Mark Steyn

#6. Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

Patrick Lencioni

#7. I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

John F. Kerry

#8. I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine.

Tana French

#9. Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Marco Brambilla

#10. Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

#11. Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

Kelly Bryson

#13. Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones.

Benjamin Noys

#14. A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

Eban Goodstein

#15. As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

Glenn Greenwald

#16. Others quit and stay - letting their intimidation or resentment about politics drain their time, energy, morale, and performance.

Rick Brandon

#17. Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

Neelie Kroes

#18. Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Alexis De Tocqueville

#19. Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!

Tom Toles

#20. Sarah. I smiled. I couldn't help but appreciate the absolute perfection of the name; bland, common, and wholly unoriginal. Best of all, it means princess.

Katja Millay

#21. Rock was different from rock and roll. Rock was virtuosic and adult, as opposed to popsy and teenaged. Rock and roll was apolitical and fun, while rock was "heavy" and often political, creating vistas of psychic energy that carried beyond the music itself and into radical politics and art.

Stephen Davis

#22. Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Dallas Willard

#23. We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.

Susan Douglas

#24. A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

Michael Klare

#25. And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Tycho Brahe

#26. I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

Ed Rendell

#27. Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Chris Hayes

#28. Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

Al Gore

#29. The sheet of life's music runs in front of us in endless reams, but without the ears that God grants us they don't seem to spawn a single sound.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

Barack Obama

#31. I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

Jessica Mitford

#32. Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so.

Miranda Kerr

#33. Let your Imagination go far, Never be afraid to discover further into you thoughts. Come out with great words,

Me

#34. The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

Barack Obama

#35. By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.

Joseph J. Romm