Rick Perry: “It has been called a Ponzi scheme by many people long before me. But no one's had the courage to stand up and say, here…”

I want to try to push the FERC and this country to take action so that we don't face that event in the future where people's lives are put in jeopardy or where this country's national security is jeopardized.

Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business.

I think it's a great opportunity for this country to have a conversation about the climate and get the politics out of it and bring the scientists together.

I think it's a clean-burning fuel that every molecule of LNG that we can get into the market displacing older, inefficient coal-burning plants in Europe, for instance, is a win for the climate.