Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

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

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

Every market is in transition.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

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

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 Quote

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

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 Quote

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

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

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

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 Quote

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

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.
- Kenneth Lay Quote

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 Quote

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

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