Bill Richardson Quotes (160 Quotes)

I don't have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.

Other past (DOE) secretaries have not wanted to deal with this problem, because of enormous political difficulties in the Congress, different constituencies,

The coalition has reunited itself because of Iraqi behavior, ... We believe that there's strong unanimity and consensus on the council that Iraq's behavior has been unacceptable.

We have been saying we need a home heating oil reserve, we've been saying that stocks are low, and we need (legislation) passed, ... We need the Congress to approve a reasonable trigger for releasing the oil in the reserve.

As we have throughout the event, we will continue to take necessary precautionary measures to ensure protection of the health and safety of all workers, the public and firefighters,

The president and his friends on Capitol Hill have put together a budget that does not reflect the values of everyday Americans.

High gas prices are going to revolutionize the way we drive and move our society to more fuel-efficient vehicles, ... Unfortunately, it's taken a crisis of high gas prices to move us in that direction.

This policy reverses a decades-old Energy Department practice of opposing claims filed by people who helped build America's toughest defenses, ... They are people who became ill after working with very hazardous materials under dangerous conditions.

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Every dollar governors are forced to cut out of our budgets is a dollar that's not going into the economy. . . . Every job that must be cut is another statistic in already escalating unemployment figures. . . . Every person who loses the support and services on which they rely for their livelihood and security leaves us poorer as a people and as a nation.