OPEC Quotes

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

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

The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

No great power will allow itself to be strangulated.

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

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.

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.

We’re at war with no guns.

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

The United States must face the uncomfortable fact that its goal of “energy independence”--- a phrase that has become a mantra since it was first articulated by Richard Nixon four weeks after the 1973 embargo was put in place--- is increasingly at odds with reality.

I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.

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

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

I think, for OPEC, the main challenge is to have a price level which brings good profits to them, good incentives for the investments, but at the same time, to prevent prices going to very high levels.

I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

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

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.

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

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

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