Economy-of-the-middle-east Quote by Christopher Hitchens

"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…

— Dick Cheney

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

“The Middle East is an immense focal point of all kinds of collective forces: economic, religious, social, ideological, and cultural. We have tremendous financial…

— Ritama Davidson

The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising…

— Saddam Hussein

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

— Naomi Klein

Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from politics.

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

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 Middle East is anything but ‘one size fits all’.”

— Amal Awad

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene…

— Wesley Clark

There are certain areas which ISIS has the oil and you take the oil, you keep it. You just go in and take it.

— Donald Trump