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We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.