I hope that every one of you will leave this room...and become a strong and fervently committed American.

The situation is not going to get any better.

I urge you to support the Udall-Anderson bill.

You and your colleagues in the House of Representatives will soon cast the most important conservation vote of this century.

The Udall-Anderson substitute bill is balanced.

The other bills before the Congress are unacceptable.

The Nation owes a debt of gratitude for those Members of the House of Representatives who did have the courage to vote 'yes.'

I have a sure knowledge that anyone who wants to have gas rationing has taken leave of their senses.

If we should have a serious interruption of oil and gasoline supplies, our Nation would be unprepared to deal with it.

We have gotten the best deal we can.

I do not have the authority to implement mandatory wage and price controls.

But they avoided taking action on the subject of oil, and this failure to take action to deal with the oil problem is part of the reason for our present gasoline shortage.

I think as we go through the coming months and years, we're going to see that the energy shortage is not a transient thing.

We stand staunchly behind our allies and friends, Israel and Egypt.

The energy shortage is not a transient thing.

There is nothing easy about energy.

The treaty is to our great advantage and also to the Soviets' great advantage.

I'm not predicting that we will have a shortage—I hope that we will not have a shortage—but I'm not willing to accept the judgment of a majority of the House of Representatives.