Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All...
[…] One night, five men from Nuweiba were travelling past the mountain, and one of them fell behind, and was separated from his companions. As the man – whom we will call Ahmed – wandered in the darkness, wondering where his friends had gone, a...
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
'Lawrence of Arabia' is a film that anyone wanting to become an actor should watch at least six hundred times.
I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Jackson Bentley: You answered without saying anything. That's politics.
T.E. Lawrence: The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.
T.E. Lawrence: Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali? Do you?
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.
Sherif Ali: Truly, for some men nothing is written unless THEY write it.
T.E. Lawrence: There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
Colonel Brighton: Damn it, Lawrence! Who do you take your orders from?
The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
Sherif Ali: Have you no fear, English? T.E. Lawrence: My fear is my concern.
Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert? T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.
Prince Feisal: You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England? T.E. Lawrence: To England, and to other things.
