246 Quotes on Oil

• I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• 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 its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• 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 much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

  Author: Heather Wilson

• The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

  Author: Dionne Warwick

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.

  Author: Greg Walden

• I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

  Author: Greg Walden

• 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 oil.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I fought fire with oil.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.

  Author: Maxwell Taylor

• Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

  Author: William Tammeus

• The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

  Author: Jason Statham

• Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

  Author: John Spratt

• We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

  Author: Tony Snow

• Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check.

  Author: John Snow

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  Author: John Shimkus

• People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

  Author: John Shimkus

• It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• 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 year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

  Author: John Salazar

• Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

  Author: Mercer Reynolds

• If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• Friendship and money: oil and water.

  Author: Mario Puzo

• The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

  Author: Carl Pope

• Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.

  Author: Richard Pombo

• If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

  Author: T. Pickens

• Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

  Author: David Petraeus

• This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

  Author: Alexandra Paul

• When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

  Author: Major Owens

• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  Author: Ovid

• Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

  Author: John Olver

• We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

  Author: John Olver

• Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

  Author: John Olver

• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  Author: William O'Connell

• We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

  Author: Olusegun Obasanjo

• Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

  Author: George Norris

• The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

  Author: Paul Newman

• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

  Author: Frank Murkowski

• Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

  Author: Edvard Munch

• The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

  Author: John Milton

• I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  Author: Gary Miller

• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

  Author: Gary Miller

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  Author: Gary Miller

• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

  Author: Gary Miller

• In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

  Author: Gary Miller

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  Author: Gary Miller

• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  Author: Gary Miller

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  Author: Gary Miller

• First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

  Author: Donella Meadows

• No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

  Author: John McHugh

• I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

  Author: Dave Matthews

• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  Author: Ed Markey

• The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Author: George MacDonald

• One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

  Author: James Lovelock

• The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

  Author: James Lovelock

• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

  Author: Richard Linklater

• The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

  Author: John Linder

• By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

  Author: Hugh Laurie

• For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

  Author: Mary Landrieu

• I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

  Author: Mary Landrieu

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Author: Walter Landor

• By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

  Author: Anthony Lake

• It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

  Author: Ron Klein

• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Author: Ron Kind

• We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

  Author: Ron Kind

• This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

  Author: Amanullah Khan

• I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

  Author: Bob Kane

• By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

  Author: Tim Johnson

• Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  Author: Washington Irving

• We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• Iraq is not about oil.

  Author: Bobby Inman

• When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.

  Author: Gwen Ifill

• The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

  Author: Robert Howard

• The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

  Author: David Houston

• It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

  Author: Edward Hopper

• I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

  Author: Edward Hopper

• The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

  Author: Chris Hollen

• And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

  Author: Tim Holden

• Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

  Author: Tim Holden

• One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

  Author: Tim Holden

• I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

  Author: Dustin Hoffman

• It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

  Author: Maurice Hinchey

• The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

  Author: Maurice Hinchey

• We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

  Author: Stephanie Herseth

• John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

  Author: Teresa Heinz

• Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.

  Author: Paul Hawken

• You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

  Author: Ed Harris

• I can go a year before an oil change.

  Author: David Harris

• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Author: Renny Harlin

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  Author: Zac Hanson

• Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

  Author: Jack Hannah

• No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

  Author: Daryl Hannah

• Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

  Author: Daryl Hannah

• For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

  Author: Lee Hamilton

• Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

  Author: Wilson Greatbatch

• Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

  Author: Phil Gramm

• Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

  Author: Bob Graham

• The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

  Author: Andrew Gould

• As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

  Author: Al Gore

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  Author: Bart Gordon

• It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

  Author: Virgil Goode

• In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

  Author: Virgil Goode

• In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

  Author: Paul Getty

• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  Author: J. Getty

• Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

  Author: J. Getty

• I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

  Author: George Galloway

• I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

  Author: George Galloway

• Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

  Author: Adolf Galland

• The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

  Author: Frank Gaffney

• Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

  Author: Thomas Friedman

• I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

  Author: Vicente Fox

• The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

  Author: C. Forester

• In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

  Author: Henry Flynt

• The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

  Author: John Ensign

• Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

  Author: Olympia Dukakis

• The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

  Author: Julia Dreyfus

• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Author: Pete Domenici

• There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

  Author: Pete Domenici

• Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

  Author: Pete Domenici

• There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

  Author: Elizabeth Dole

• As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

  Author: Christopher Dodd

• The oil can is mightier than the sword.

  Author: Everett Dirksen

• You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.

  Author: Angie Dickinson

• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

  Author: Rosa DeLauro

• About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• There is no free market in oil.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  Author: Peter DeFazio

• Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

  Author: Siobhan Davies

• We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

  Author: Ted Danson

• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Author: Doug Coupland

• Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

  Author: Jim Costa

• But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.

  Author: Jim Costa

• We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

  Author: Jim Costa

• We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

  Author: Jon Corzine

• Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

  Author: Rob Corddry

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  Author: Calvin Coolidge

• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

  Author: Sidonie Colette

• Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

  Author: Jim Clyburn

• But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

  Author: Jim Clyburn

• I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

  Author: Chuck Close

• There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

  Author: Clarence Clemons

• The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

  Author: Chris Chocola

• We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

  Author: Steve Chabot

• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

  Author: Miguel Cervantes

• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  Author: Miguel Cervantes

• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

  Author: Miguel Cervantes

• We get more oil from Canada than any country.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  Author: Barbara Castle

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  Author: Barbara Castle

• Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

  Author: Russ Carnahan

• 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 and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Frank Carlucci

• If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

  Author: Herman Cain

• It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

  Author: George Bush

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  Author: Warren Buffett

• Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

  Author: John Bruton

• This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

  Author: Sam Brownback

• We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

  Author: Lloyd Bridges

• So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

  Author: Alain Botton

• With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

  Author: Mary Bono

• We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

  Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

• First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

  Author: Josh Billings

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  Author: Walter Benjamin

• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

  Author: Henry Beecher

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  Author: Abu Bashir

• Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

  Author: Abu Bashir

• They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

  Author: Luigi Barzini

• I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

  Author: Roscoe Bartlett

• Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

  Author: Maria Bartiromo

• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Author: Neal Barnard

• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

  Author: Dan Aykroyd

• How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.

  Author: Dwayne Andreas

• I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

  Author: John Amos

• Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

  Author: Ted Allen

• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

  Author: Aeschylus

• Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

  Author: Joey Adams

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