And that's why we need a long-term strategy to decrease our dependence on foreign sources of energy, and that's the strategy this President has been pursuing since he took office.
President Obama has made promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls central to ourforeign policy and national security strategy, including by leading by example at home.
But an energy strategy that focuses only on drilling and not on an energy strategy that will free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, that's a losing strategy.
"I believe it is in our national interest to have an energy plan -- to have a strategy to get us less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil, " he said.