The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

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.

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

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.

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.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

I find directing more satisfying.

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.