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 opportun….

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

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

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 ….

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..

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled..

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 ev….

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..

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting..

The transmission systems are still regulated..

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

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

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….

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 presid….

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

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

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

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

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

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company..

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