George W. Bush Quotes

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

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

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

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.

Russia is a gas station posing as a country.

Most regulation of trade is by artful men for private advantage under the pretense of public good

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

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.

All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.

Stick with the global warming for just a second, because you're fully aware that I call it a hoax, and that might be off-putting to some. The simplest way to explain to people who want to believe it's true - and you know who they are. Those are people looking for ways to make themselves matter. They run around and they hear that they're to blame for the world getting warm, or that the country is, our prosperity, our high standard of living and the fact that we've stolen all these resources from around the world, that we're using more oil than we have any right to.

If [Donald ] Trump wins, they [ white supremacists] could be running the country.

Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.

All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.

They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.