On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

Holy mother!""Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference."-Hephaetus

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.