Dick Cheney Quotes

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

The United States has consumed in the last 50 years more natural resources than the rest of the entire human race for all of history.

The price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions. It’s the First Law of Petropolitics.

If the principle product of the Middle East were broccoli, we would not worry about the Middle East.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

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

In the United States you use more oil than water. Water takes a few days to recycle. Oil takes 4 million years.

I believe in nationalizing those public necessities which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals. By these I mean banking, credit and currency, power, light, oil and natural gas and our God-given natural resources.

This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time.

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

Just as the stone age did not end for lack of stones, the oil age will not end because of a scarcity of oil.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil …. Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy

The oil companies don’t own the resources…. We own the resources.

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

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.