Oil Quotes - Page 19

• If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

  Ric Flair

  Art, Wrestling, Color

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• In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Fate, Opportunity

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• You know, I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything.
  I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business.
  But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Dad, Oil Business

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• Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

  Ariel Sharon

  May, Politician, Ministers

  "Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement". Book by Robert I. Friedman, 1992.

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• If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.  That's not gallons, but barrels.  Small changes in buying habits can make big differences.  Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Small Changes, Differences

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

  Wole Soyinka

  Country, Petroleum, Has Beens

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• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Zach Wamp

  Change, Blue, Facts

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• Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Past, Iran, Years

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• Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

  James Buchan

  Addiction, Different, Would Be

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• Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

  Jim Costa

  Addiction, Effort, President

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• We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

  Ron Kind

  Addiction, Done, Dependence

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• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  F. William Engdahl

  Iraq, Office, Priorities

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• Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

  Mickey Duff

  Kings, Snakes, Boxing

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• The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Snakes, Miracle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores

  Jeff Miller

  Beach, Issues, Florida

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• Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

  Ken Salazar

  Respect, Doe, Liability

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• When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Country, People, Firsts

  Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Raw Materials, Use, Way

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• What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Way, Nuclear

  "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Stupid, Past

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• A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Nails, Fabric, Woods

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.108, MIT Press

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• Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

  Willem de Kooning

  Flesh, Reason Why, Painting

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Oct. 1974

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• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Dwarves, Sea, Kuwait

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.120, Basic Books

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• Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Goes On, Remember

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