In an interview with author Stephen Hayes on November 21, 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘…something I repeated periodically was that the good Lord didn’t see fit to put a lot of gas resources only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. If you’re going to go get oil and gas that the nation needs to run its economy, you’re going to have to deal with some unsavory characters in some potentially hostile parts of the world.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 271