Henry Kissinger: If Saudi Arabia does not lift the boycott, America will come and bomb the oilfields.
King Faisal:You are the ones who can't live without oil. You know, we come from the desert, and our ancestors lived on dates and milk and we can easily go back and live like that again. (Faisal of Saudi Arabia)

Henry Kissinger: If Saudi Arabia does not lift the boycott, America will come and bomb the oilfields. King Faisal:You are the ones who can't live without oil. You know, we come from the desert, and our ancestors lived on dates and milk and we can easily go back and live like that again.

Faisal of Saudi Arabia

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