Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.

A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

The car is the cigarette of the future.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.