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Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. -- Alexandra Paul
The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil. -- Woody Harrelson
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. -- Dustin Hoffman
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. -- George Galloway
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. -- Roger Mahony
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. -- John Thune
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. -- Sherrod Brown
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years. -- Alex Berenson
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. -- Warren Buffett
The Iraq War is largely about oil. -- Alan Greenspan
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil. -- Stephen Colbert
We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas. -- Newt Gingrich
The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil. -- Andy Borowitz
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil. -- Alan Greenspan
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that. -- Phyllis Chesler
As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline. -- Jay Leno
The present oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of government mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war. -- Milton Friedman
We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free. -- Jay Leno
It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live. -- Manfred Gerstenfeld
I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil. -- Daryl Hannah
This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war) -- Jimmy Carter

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