Kenneth Lay Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
• But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.
• But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
• Every market is in transition.
• I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.
• I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
• Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.
• The transmission systems are still regulated.
• 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…
• 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…
• Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.
• When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.
• If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
• Investors don't like uncertainty.
• The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

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