I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the…

I flew helicopters, which actually is the second best view of the earth. The first best view is, I think, a little bit higher.

— Sunita Williams

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

— Willard Wigan

Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from…

— Kris Kristofferson

When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in…

— Barack Obama

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the…

— Dick Cheney

The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As…

— Al Gore

Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present dictatorship in…

— Lawrence Davidson

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or…

— George J. Mitchell

“For her the war came suddenly closer when, on Wednesday 23rd August, she received a telephone message from the local police that the factory…

— Norman Longmate

Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer…

— Andrew Bacevich

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access…

— Al Gore

“And who but Allah could have used a fool like President Bush to remove Saddam, the man who had been the greatest obstacle to…

— Phillip Oliver Otts

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world…

— George W. Bush

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

— Jan Schakowsky