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"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil… — Dick Cheney
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Unknown Author
We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a… — Michael Mullen
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging… — Ban Ki-moon
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional… — Lester R. Brown
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for… — P.J. O'Rourke
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions… — Ron Silver
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle… — Ann Coulter
Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin… — Ghassan Kanafani
The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel… — Shimon Peres
Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant… — Ehud Olmert
Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part… — George W. Bush
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even… — John McCain
We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will… — George H. W. Bush
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we… — Condoleezza Rice
Our challenge is much more pervasive than it would be if we were just facing one enemy in one place. [Instead there is] the Middle… — Hillary Clinton
Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the… — Brigitte Gabriel
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle… — David Horowitz
The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it… — Leon Panetta
Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect.… — Zaha Hadid
The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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