Oil Quotes - Page 33

• Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.

  Saddam Hussein

  Believe, Hands, Iraq

  "Saddam: U.S. 'believes it should control the world'" by James Martone, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2002.

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• So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Fire, Long

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• I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

  E. J. Hughes

  Night, Trying, Tone

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• But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beach, Swimming, Men

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• I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Government, Voting

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• The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.

  David Letterman

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

  David Letterman

  Bird, Oil Spill, Colonels

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• You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

  David Letterman

  Bird, Mexico, Bigs

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• These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Government, Office

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• Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

  Robert E. Howard

  Bully, Fields, Fighter

  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935.

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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rivers, Toxic Waste, People

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• I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart

  Will Rogers

  Crazy, Inspiration, Heart

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• The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

  Will Rogers

  Real, Government, Oklahoma

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Government, Friendly

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks on his nomination to be Vice-President during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

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• The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Country, Cancer

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• My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.

  David Salle

  Father, War, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

  Joe Bradley

  Technology, Painting, Changed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?

  Michael Moss

  Thinking, Sunflower, Beef

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Apples, Google, Amazon

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself.
  And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour.
  He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now.
  He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Years, Giving, President

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• We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

  Erik Naggum

  Mom, Norway, Pops

  "Upper limits of CL". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. June 20, 2002.

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• Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

  David Dixon

  Unexpected, Terrible, Gas

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• I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

  Barbara Dana

  Important, Public Opinion, Burning

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• But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stupid, Uranium Mining, Tobacco Industry

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