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Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.