Quotes from Rex Tillerson

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

All things come down to your personal relationships.

I'm not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It'll have a warming impact.

For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.

Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.

We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.

Volunteering is a way to quickly become part of your new community, make connections, and start to feel at home. That doesn't just benefit the individual. It benefits the company, too.

Valdez was a devastating experience for our corporation. What emerged from that was a commitment to develop a systematic approach to managing risk in advance.

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

Oil demand is going to continue to grow as population grows.

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K.

We've been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.

People go out; they take risk; they find a way to develop resources that were previously not accessible, not available because of technological reasons.

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

Experience tells us that a good foundation is critical for success in the Arctic and elsewhere. ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 project with Rosneft is an example where we have put this experience to work.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it.

The disciplined approach to pursuing and selecting the most attractive investment opportunities continues to distinguish ExxonMobil. We are long-term driven, and we're patient. And we're not opportunity-constrained.

You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.