History Author Today Energy Oil The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. - Daniel Yergin
End War World We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. - Daniel Yergin
Living Now World We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia. - Daniel Yergin
Want World Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods. - Daniel Yergin
Energy Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. - Daniel Yergin
War World If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market. - Daniel Yergin
Iraq But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia. - Daniel Yergin
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. - Dirk Benedict
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. - Paul Sarbanes