Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody.

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most.

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!

Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.

I'm screaming at the top of my voice

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.