"We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil."

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Source : "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.

Midge Decter

#Oil Quotes #Light Quotes #East Quotes

“You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.”
“This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.”
“It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.”
“I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-canâ€™t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.”
“When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?”

Source : "Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. March 23, 2016.
“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.”

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
“My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.”

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