I want to make sure that the regulations that come out of the Federal Government... are necessary, brief as possible, and worded in plain and simple English.

Just reducing the thermostat to 65 degrees will save enough natural gas in our Nation to meet half the shortage that we've experienced in the last 2 or 3 weeks.

I have complete confidence in him, and I am deeply grateful that Mike Blumenthal was willing to come and work with you.

Conservation will be the centerpiece of our national energy policy.

I want to make sure that you feel a partnership with me.

I'm not afraid of change.

I consider it a great honor to be able to come and meet with you for a few minutes.

I think this is an agency which is one of the newest, but which also has the greatest potential to let people in our Nation know that the Government really cares about them.

I have the highest respect for you, and I have the deepest appreciation for what you've meant to our Government.

We might very well find it necessary on occasion-to transfer people from one job to another.

The overriding issue in the 1976 Presidential campaign was the restoration of faith in our government.

I'm confident that the Alliance To Save Energy will play a significant role in implementing our national energy policy.

I'm committed to accomplishing this before I go out of office.

I believe we have the hope among the American people that we succeed.

I doubt that anyone has ever conducted the kind of campaign for President that I've experienced in the last 2 or more years.

People wanted a government worthy of them—as competent and compassionate as they knew themselves to be.

The people were sick of diplomacy carried out in secret, often with questionable allies.

We were concerned, too, about the unfairness many of us sensed in the country's health care and welfare systems.