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

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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.

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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.

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

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My family, we're all WASPs.

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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.

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

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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.

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We need to move away from oil, period.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: September 21st, 1941

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