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" I've got an opinion on everything. "

T. Boone Pickens

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" Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline. "

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" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "

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" 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. "

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" Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. "

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

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" If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. "

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" If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them. "

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" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "

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" 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. "

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" I never did anything dishonest. "

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" To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. "

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" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "

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" I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things. "

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" Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. "

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" There is no free market for oil. "

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" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "

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" As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. "

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" I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat. "

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" Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. "

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" Fundamentals make the market. "

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

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