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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. -- Ralph Peters
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. -- Rob Walton
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. -- George H. W. Bush
Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. -- Pete Domenici
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. -- Woody Guthrie
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. -- Bernie Sanders
I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force. -- Frank Carlucci
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. -- Sylvia Earle
Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. -- Cedric Richmond
Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there. -- Paul Cellucci
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. -- Jeff Goodell
By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. -- Noam Chomsky
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. -- Condoleezza Rice
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower. -- George H. W. Bush
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. -- Christopher Shays
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. -- Christopher Shays
The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete. -- Max Baucus
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. -- Steve Scalise
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. -- Jay Inslee
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. -- Leslie Cockburn
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. -- Tom Brokaw
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. -- Pierre Salinger
I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. -- John Amos
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war. -- William Bennett
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon. -- Tom Harkin
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone -- Philippe Perrin
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone. -- Philippe Perrin
The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. -- Dan Quayle
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. -- Sylvia Earle
The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement. -- Diane Wilson
The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991. -- Paul Virilio
I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region. -- Sandy Berger
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have. -- Ian Somerhalder
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. -- Hillary Clinton
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. -- Brad Delson
We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf. -- Bob Hope
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. -- Brian Skerry
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico -- William Faulkner
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. -- Woody Harrelson
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. -- Jon Porter
Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries. -- Kevin McCarthy
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. -- George McGovern
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. -- Mario Batali
I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf. -- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. -- James Lee
Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty. -- Bill Maher
Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), -- George Galloway
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world." -- Rob Walton
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. -- Rob Walton
Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans. -- John Steinbeck
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. -- Nicholas Lea
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. -- Tony Blair
The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That's good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying. -- Adam Schiff
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. -- King Hussein
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. -- Tariq Ali
There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater. -- Bill Maher
Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea. -- David Letterman
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. -- Joseph J. Romm
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War. -- Martin Sheen
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen. -- Dwight Henry
Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same. -- Samantha Power
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf. -- Dick Cheney
In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked. -- Dan Lipinski
Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. -- Jan Schakowsky
Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values. -- Saddam Hussein
It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost. -- Doris Day
How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest? -- Milton Friedman
The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami. -- David Letterman
There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon. -- Paul Virilio
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement. -- Barbara Boxer
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement -- Barbara Boxer
Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico. -- Jay Leno
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. -- Jo Bonner
Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well. -- Dick Cheney
The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon. -- Paul Virilio
I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park. -- Jim Crace
Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us. -- Sylvia Earle
I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War. -- John Kasich
The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited. -- Margaret Thatcher
The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait... -- George H. W. Bush
You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders. -- David Letterman
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region. -- Condoleezza Rice
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice. -- Tom Coburn
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice -- Tom Coburn
Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization. -- George J. Mitchell
When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War. -- Lily King
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed. -- Nina Easton
The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, 'Eh . . . second biggest.' -- Jimmy Fallon
I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology. -- Jim Parsons
President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster? -- Jay Leno
Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates. -- Moshe Safdie
The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume. -- Tony Hayward
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. -- Billy Bragg
But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf. -- Paul Cellucci
The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests. -- Barack Obama
Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. -- Michael Robotham
The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms. -- David Letterman
We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But we will get the money from Gulf states and others. -- Donald Trump
The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets. -- Judith Butler
We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar. -- Rick Renzi
Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf. -- Chris Paine
When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do. -- Sylvia Earle
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. -- Fred Thompson
I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen. -- Edward Forbes
There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it. -- David Letterman
The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians. -- Edward Said
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list. -- Daniel Yergin
Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised. -- Kofi Annan
How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal. -- David Letterman
Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa. -- Leonid Brezhnev
BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. -- Peter Welch
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area. -- Sylvia Earle

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