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“You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Economy #Surplus #Shortage
“It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Lying #People #Interesting
“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.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Criminals #Would Be #Lasts
“The transmission systems are still regulated.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Transmission #Stills
“Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Dollars #World #Financial
“I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Have Faith
“I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Thinking #Numbers #Criminals
“Every market is in transition.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Transition
“But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#California #Enron
“But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#California #Important #Causes
“Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Thinking #Fool #Fooled
“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.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Failure #July #Tragedy
“The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#California #Problem #Plant
“Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Mean #Doe #Illegal
“I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Dream #Years #Lasts
“I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Responsibility #Economy #Taking Responsibility
“I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Running #Strong #Two
“In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Balance #Economy #Cases
“There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Departure #Problem #Economy
“Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Sides #Economy #Electricity
“We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Use #Economy #Delivery
“We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Competition #Firsts #Helping
“Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Energy #Today #Commodity
“They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Economy #Electricity
“We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Opportunity #Looks #Concern
“Investors don't like uncertainty.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Investors #Uncertainty
“There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Issues #Problem #Economy
“I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Integrity #Character #Law
“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.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Opportunity #Leader #Trying
“I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.”
-- Kenneth Lay

#Responsibility #Criminals #Good And Bad

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