Jimmy Carter Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

  Jimmy Carter

  Running, Oil, Energy

• We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Balance, Acting, Energy

• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy.
  But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Pain, Overcoming

  "Jimmy Carter on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

• Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Character, People

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.96, University of Arkansas Press

• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Destiny, Energy

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

• Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Energy, Conservation

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

• Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Japan, Alternatives

• We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nature, Animal, Law

• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Taken, Moving

• Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Two, Presidential

  Remarks at town meeting, Bardstown, Ky., 31 July 1979, referring to a speech on energy and national goals broadcast 15 July 1979.

• This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Oil, Independence

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

• If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Fall, Hard Work, Science

• It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

  Jimmy Carter

  Voice, America, President

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

• And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Car, Alternatives

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

• The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Selfish, Years

• I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Energy, Degrees

  "Jimmy Carter: I Feel Like I'm 'Superior' to Other Ex-Presidents". Interview with Brian Williams, nation.foxnews.com. May 22, 2011.

• A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

  Jimmy Carter

  Law, Energy, Waste

  "The Tavis Smiley Show', www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

• Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Science, Power

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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