Richard Kinder

I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented company.

We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

In February 1969, 25 years ago, I arrived as a young, terrified PFC on this lonely little hill in Quang Ngai Province. Back then, the place seemed huge and imposing and permanent.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.