Chris Wright: “We're solving a 47-year conflict with Iran. We cannot have a nuclear-armed Iran. This is a nation sounding death to…”

Energy has 'become a fabric of international discussion,' Wright told the Washington Examiner while on an early September flight from Venezuela to Washington.

A brief military operation, arrest two criminals and now we have leverage over the government. It’s an existing government. Are they perfect? No. But we have a lot of leverage.

Energy is different,' Wright said. 'It’s just central to economies to security to foreign relations.

“Energy is life,” Wright said in a news conference near Allentown, where he met with Lehigh Valley leaders.