James Woolsey Quotations

Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

The problem is that after him, we don't know who we're going to get.

It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselves in a jungle full of a number of poisonous snakes.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

The world -- and not just the United States -- has a problem with depending on the Middle East, and not just the Saudis, for such a large oil share, which creates a problem because of the instability in the area.

We've got to put up with a lot of lying about what has happened and what we're doing, ... And I think, under those circumstances, the pictures are going to be necessary.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

As we move toward a new Middle East, ... over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... we will make a lot of people very nervous.

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