Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a…

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a…

— Richard Engel

Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.

— Zainab Salbi

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create…

— Bob Ney

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days…

— Daniel Yergin

The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by the gods…

— Gore Vidal

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's…

— Randall Robinson

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven…

— Bob Beauprez

Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in the world.…

— Noam Chomsky

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was…

— Hugo Chavez

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source…

— Barack Obama

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of…

— Jay Inslee

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of…

— Daniel Yergin

Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is…

— Lester R. Brown

Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed…

— Saddam Hussein