The President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference. “What else — part of the question — oh, oil revenues. Well, the oil revenues are — they’re bigger than we thought they would be at this point in time. I mean, one year after the liberation of Iraq, the revenues of the oil stream is pretty darn significant. One of the things I was concerned about prior to going into Iraq was that the oil fields would be destroyed. But they weren’t, they’re now up and running. And that money is — it will benefit the Iraqi people. It’s their oil, and they’ll use it to reconstruct the country.”
– Transcript, “President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference,” George W. Bush – White House Archives, April 13, 2003