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.

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.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

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.

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

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

I've got an opinion on everything. Sure, you ought to do OCS, you ought to do renewables, you ought to do biofuels, you ought to do ethanol, all of them. Those are ours and we've got to get off the dependency on the foreign oil.