American Quote by Stephen Kinzer

State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

— David E. Sanger

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings…

— Gary Miller

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before…

— Allyson Schwartz

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian…

— Gore Vidal

Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

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

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and…

— Bill McKibben

I am not against oil multinationals. What I am saying is that you end up going to them when you are not able to…

— Alberto Fernandez

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as…

— Daniel Yergin

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible…

— T. Boone Pickens

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments…

— John Bruton

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the…

— Xavier Niel