Book Quote by John D. Rockefeller

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

— Sherman Alexie

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But…

— Chris Van Hollen

It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

— John J. McCloy

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

— Ava DuVernay

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

— Cristian Machado

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book…

— George W. Bush

The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

— Jeff Goodell

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 didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's…

— Randall Robinson

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.

— T. Boone Pickens