I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. – Kenneth Lay
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
Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally. – Kenneth Lay
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
When there’s uncertainty they always think there’s another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall. – Kenneth Lay
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. – Kenneth Lay
Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away. – Kenneth Lay
The problems in California have been that it’s been very difficult to site and build new power plants. – Kenneth Lay
Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets. – Kenneth Lay
I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal. – Kenneth Lay
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