JAMES WOOLSEY

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 the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

We need to move away from oil, period.

Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

We are all Jews now.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

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 the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

We need to move away from oil, period.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

My family, we're all WASPs.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

One makes mistakes in every war.

We are all Jews now.

We are funding the rope for the hanging of ourselves.

In Iran they believe that girls who are virgins go to heaven. So when a young woman is in prison to be executed, they rape her before they kill her.

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.