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.
— Rex Tillerson
The STEM-related positions that U.S. industry needs to fill are not just for biochemists, biophysicists and engineers.
We recognize that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors affecting climate change.
We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.
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.
We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.
People go out; they take risk; they find a way to develop resources that were previously not accessible, not available because of technological reasons.
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.
My philosophy is to make money.
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 have spent our entire existence adapting.
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.
You'd be surprised how many times I've had to have that conversation with heads of state who want to say to me, 'Well, look, I know you can have some influence on the president. I need you to go back and tell him this.'
I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.
You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.
None of us live in a zero-risk world.
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.
We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.
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.
The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.
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.
Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.
The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.
When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.
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.
For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.
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.
We've been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.
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.'
Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.
Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.
You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.
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.
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.
There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.
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.
We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It's both U.S. and in Canada.
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.
We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.
Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.
The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.
At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.
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.
I'm not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It'll have a warming impact.
Because we have a society that by and large is illiterate in these areas - science, math and engineering - what we do is a mystery to them, and they find it scary. And because of that, it creates easy opportunities for opponents of development, activist organizations, to manufacture fear.
All things come down to your personal relationships.
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.
There are a thousand ways you can be told 'no' in this country.
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.
