Cost Quote by Dick Cheney

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

I think that competition will exist even if we discover more oil. We're never going to know how much we have, or how long…

— Thomas Friedman

The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.

— Dov Davidoff

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…

— Michael Mullen

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

— Phyllis Chesler

Many other countries in the region also have money and oil, but they haven't done much good with it - at least not enough…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

— Ehud Barak

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue…

— Kenny Marchant

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

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

— Anonymous

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done…

— Herb Kohl