Administration Quote by Jay Inslee

“President Carter’s re-election campaign in 1979 commenced amid spiralling global oil prices. With Bandar’s help, Carter drafted a letter to Fahd requesting Saudi Arabia…

— Andrew Feinstein

We can no longer allow Americas dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to…

— Senator John Kerry

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

— Lubna Olayan

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

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

— Jay Inslee

Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that…

— Anonymous

However, it was not us who refused to freeze oil production; our Saudi partners changed their point of view at the last moment and…

— Vladimir Putin

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable…

— Dan Lipinski

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their…

— Jerry Pournelle

For the U.S., the primary interest is our continued access to Saudi Arabian oil in adequate quantities... at an acceptable political as well as…

— William E. Simon

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

— Bill Gates