Oil Quotes

They're evildoers. Yesterday it's a tree, today it's a salmon, tomorrow it's, "Let's not dig up Alaska for oil because it's too pretty." Let me tell you something - I came out here to enjoy nature. Don't talk to me about the environment.

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

The fact is that this war is about freedom, justice - and oil. It's called multitasking.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.

Yesterday Sarah Palin accused President Obama of leading a lackadaisical response to the spill because he is ‘too close to the big oil companies.’ She would know because her husband worked for BP for 18 years. Rarely do you see both a metaphorical and a literal example of the pot calling the kettle black, but I think we just did.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.