T. Boone Pickens

“I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.”

“Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.”

“It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.”

“Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.”

“I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.”

“I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.”

“I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.”

“On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.”