It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

I've always thought that people always wonder why conservatives don't stick together like liberals do. You know, they kind of throw the person to the wolves.

Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.