Quote by Robert M. Gates Download Open image ““others—angled for oil contracts and”” — Robert M. Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.” — James J Freeland Copy Share Image
“The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.” — Stephan Talty Copy Share Image
The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
"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 Copy Share Image
“By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
“It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to… — Ed Murray Copy Share Image
Our customers' business interests are heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry. — Karen Katz Copy Share Image
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
“the New World had become the oil granary for the Old; altogether, the United States was to satisfy 80 percent of the Allies’ wartime… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“I was seething. I told him that “the clock is ticking” and that our patience with their lack of political progress was running out.… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Obama was the fourth president I had worked for who said outright that he wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons (Carter, Reagan, and Bush… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“The passage of fourteen years had led to another significant change in the international environment. As I told Bush 43 and Condi Rice on… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States'… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
