Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?