Political Quotes

Chris Wright

The Public Record

U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration; founder and former CEO of Liberty Energy.

Quotes by year · 2019–2026114 total · peak 2026 (88)
2019: 6 quotes2024: 4 quotes2025: 16 quotes2026: 88 quotes

Most widely reported

by number of sources
  1. Americans are united in their desire to supercharge our economy, to increase our national security by keeping our lead in artificial intelligence over China.12 sources2026iowacapitaldispatch.com
  2. “Energy is life,” Wright said in a news conference near Allentown, where he met with Lehigh Valley leaders.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
  3. “Every project is evaluated in economics — Is that going to increase energy supply, drive down energy prices, and increase energy security? Because that’s how America thrives,” Wright said.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
  4. “We lost our way, and we started to spend money only based on decarbonization goals, forgetting American people, forgetting taxpayers, forgetting jobs and opportunity,” Wright said.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
  5. “We are reallocating funds that were already dedicated towards the United States electricity grid, but just driving them towards reliability and affordability instead of making things more expensive for political posturing,” Wright said.3 sources2026scdailygazette.com
  6. If his decisions were political, he would have just kicked the can down the road and delivered a nuclear-armed Iran to the next president.2 sources2026cbsnews.com
Oct 22, 2026

By investing in both coal generation and critical export infrastructure … the Energy Department is strengthening U.S. energy security, reinforcing strategic supply chains, and advancing American energy dominance.

rollcall.com
Oct 21, 2026

I’m happy they’re coming down. They’ve gone down the last few weeks, as have diesel prices, and they will continue to come down.

dailycaller.com
Oct 21, 2026

We are talking about reopening every refinery we can.

dailycaller.com
Oct 17, 2026

This order will help ensure millions of American families and businesses across the mid-Atlantic have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity by making additional power generation, including backup power, available to use as…

penncapital-star.com
Oct 5, 2026

There's different ways to look at it. He's always looking, 'How do I lower energy prices? How do I lower heating prices, electricity prices, gasoline prices, diesel prices?

cbsnews.com
Oct 5, 2026

Everything we're doing is to grow the supply of diesel, to grow the supply of gasoline, and frankly, again, to reverse years of policies that have been directed exactly the opposite-to shrink our ability to produce, refine, and deliver…

cbsnews.com
Oct 5, 2026

You should see it below $6 before too long.

cbsnews.com
Oct 5, 2026

He knew it was going to elevate energy prices in the short run, he said, 'I'm going to take a hit there, but I got to do the right thing.

cbsnews.com
Oct 4, 2026

I think things are going reasonably well there but the flip side is, you have to look at every wrench you’ve got to bring a murderous conflict to an end.

dailycaller.com
Oct 4, 2026

Not only would ending this war end the killing of tens of thousands of people every month, it would dramatically lower energy prices.

dailycaller.com
Oct 4, 2026

He [Trump] has worked ceaselessly to try to end this war.

dailycaller.com