• I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

    Dick Cheney: I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.
    "Brutality smeared in peanut butter" By Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.