Quotes from Rex Tillerson

The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It's not that we can't do it - just not at a cost that anyone will bear.

There are a thousand ways you can be told 'no' in this country.

We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.

We recognize that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors affecting climate change.

We are grounded in the reality of the day and grounded in the technology of the day. Just saying 'turn the taps off' is not acceptable to humanity.

We've recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand.

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source.

Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it's a good or some other consumable, or it's a luxury item. It's all a function of what do the raw materials cost.

When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.

Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.

The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

In any country when you're going to make significant commitments, you have to look the head of state of that country eyeball to eyeball and say to them, 'I'm going to make this commitment, and I'm counting on you and your commitments.'

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption.

The size of the resource prize has to be large to support the risked capital that has to be put in place. The Arctic is one of the few places left where we believe those opportunities exist.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity - whether it was growing up as a Boy Scout, working in one of my first jobs as a university janitor, or being a leader in a Fortune 500 company.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.

As a nation, we must unite in recognizing the mounting evidence that the U.S. is falling behind international competitors in producing students ready for 21st-century jobs.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.