I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.