I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

I'm the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos.

Inner space is the real frontier.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.