Cannot Quote by Elizabeth Dole

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not…

— Sherwood Boehlert

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places.…

— Carl Pope

Offshore drilling is not the solution to U.S. energy independence, and I am against opening parts of the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans to…

— Deb Haaland

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

— Carl Pope

Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the…

— Carl Safina

We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around…

— Lisa Murkowski

The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you…

— Joe Biden

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

— Condoleezza Rice

It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all.

— Jeff Van Drew

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates…

— Barack Obama

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the…

— Sylvia Earle

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic…

— Mac Thornberry