Gerald R. Ford Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.

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.

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

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

Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security.

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.

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.

We should be sending our energy dollars to the Mid-West, not to the Middle East.