Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

Safety and certainty in oil, lie in variety and variety alone.

America is addicted to oil which is often imported from the most unstable part of the world.

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

How the United States chose to deal with its growing reliance on foreign oil would determine its future.

The world’s dependence on Gulf oil will last for at least another generation.

Show this administration an oil well, and it will show you a foreign policy.

The problem is that the good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas reserves where there are democratic governments.

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches

Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies.

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

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.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

What do Saddam Hussein and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle have in common? Neither man wants America to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The real moral is this: It does not matter how much oil is produced domestically and how much is imported. Presidents may declare that there is an “urgent need” to cut imports and boost “energy independence” — no one ever lost political support by seeing evil and blaming foreigners.

They know we own their country. We own their airspace…We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need.

American oil operations are, for all practical purposes, instruments of our foreign policy.

On no one country, on no one region, on no one route … must we depend for our oil supply.

The Persian Gulf region would have zero strategic importance were it not for the oil.

... the rising costs and risks of these fossil fuels are undercutting the security and prosperity they have enabled. Each day, the United States spends about $2 billion buying oil and loses another $4 billion indirectly to the macroeconomic costs of oil dependence, the microeconomic costs of oil price volatility, and the cost of keeping military forces ready for intervention in the Persian Gulf.

Nothing has really taken me aback more as Secretary of State than the way that the politics of energy is –… warping diplomacy around the world…we have simply got to do something about the warping now of diplomatic effort by the all-out rush for energy supply

We will no longer be kowtowing to despotic rulers and feudal monarchs whose oil supply lines are crucial to other aspects of foreign policy.

The problem of oil, it might be tersely said, is that there is always too much or too little.

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

By June 1974, Treasury Secretary George Shultz was already suggesting that rising oil prices could result in a 'highly advantageous mutual bargain' between the United States and petroleum-producing countries in the Middle East.