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The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.