“… You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that, is it is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. I think America as a whole in 1973 and 1974 – and that’s just my view but I was in the administration – missed the opportunity to deal with the energy crisis that was before us. For a long time our entire energy policy came down to cheap oil. This is an opportunity, what used to be long term problems be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things we had postponed for too long that were long term are now immediate and must be dealt with. ”
