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" When you are in a situation or a crisis, you need to define, what is the unique role that I can play? "

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" I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon. "

" I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees. "

" On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment! "

" For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI. "

" When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook. "

" As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective. "

" Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve. "

" I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050. "

" Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that. "

" I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going. "

" There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear. "

" I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day. "

" We should be building more nuclear today. "

" It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally. "

" I find, at times, people underestimate me. That's really an asset. "

" I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward. "

" People who love what they do get after it every day. "

" I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence. "

" If we just isolate distributed solar all by itself, it does not work without the utility around it. And so the utility needs to be paid for the services it provides. "

" What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas. "

" You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution. "

" I love nuclear. "

" I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions. "

" I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix. "

" There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.' "

" I had never seen a computer when I went to college. "

" Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation. "

" Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient. "

" The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant. "

" If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours. "