He had a huge ambition to make wealth for himself.

He told a story later about sitting on a tractor,

dreaming about the world of business

and how different it could be from the way

things were for him and his family.

Lay was a PhD in economics and he became,

very early on, a real apostle for deregulation.

He was way ahead of the curve on this.

He was thinking about energy markets

that would be deregulated. And in particular,

the natural gas industry that was shackled by regulation.

And he pushed aggressively in Washington to change all of that.

In Washington,

Lay became part of a new crusade

to liberate businessmen from the rules

and regulations of government.

Government is not the solution to our problem.

Government is the problem.

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular,

broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time