Administration Quote by Michael Mandelbaum

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

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

— Barack Obama

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

Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.

— Stephen Kinzer

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

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days…

— Daniel Yergin

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

So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price…

— Frank Carlucci

Saudi Arabia is the bulwark of our relationship, especially when it comes to Iran, and without the partnership of Saudi Arabia and our other…

— Morgan Ortagus

Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of…

— James Howard Kunstler

“The use of oil as the medium of exchange for the Al Yamamah contracts made bribes easier to hide, allowed Saudi Arabia to bypass…

— Andrew Feinstein