Best 28 quotes of Kenneth Lay on MyQuotes

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

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.

I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

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

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

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.

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

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

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

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