East Quote by Shirin Ebadi

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

...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

I've been saying for a long time, and I think you'll agree, because I said it to you once, had we taken the oil…

— Donald Trump

I don't get why arabs are so pissed off at us. I mean they have enough oil for all of them to drive a…

— Zach Braff

Had we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil.

— Donald Trump

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we…

— Midge Decter

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

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as…

— Anita Roddick

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they…

— Kofi Annan

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

— Phyllis Chesler