Auto Industry Quotes

• The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

  Stewart Udall

  Balance, Limited Resources, Use

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• I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Industry

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Mean, People, Able

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. March 30, 2009.

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• If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

  Warren Buffett

  Horse, Decision, One Line

  "One of the best things about Warren Buffett is that he's not afraid to let things die" by Joshua Brown, www.businessinsider.com. March 02, 2015.

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• The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Dream, Car

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• IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

  Ratan Tata

  Communication, Talking, Growth

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

  Adam Osborne

  Fog, People, Giving

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• I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

  Mitt Romney

  Hurt, Car, American Cars

  Source: genius.com

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• A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Numbers

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• I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

  Chris Paine

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.

  Charles Landry

  Cities, Creative, Intellectual

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

  Dennis Miller

  Blowing Up, Industry

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• I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Corporations, Should

  Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, time.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Cutting, Government

  "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Jobs, War, Fall

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Moving, Independent, Oil

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, America, Support

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

  Henry Paulson

  Thinking, Important, Said

  "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, dollarsandsense.org.

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• With autonomous cars, you're gonna see more consolidation. Once we have transport modules, you order off the phone and brands won't matter anymore. When brands don't matter, the auto industry ends. It's got another 20 years.

  Bob Lutz

  Phones, Order, Years

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

  James Surowiecki

  Safety, Environmental, Disaster

  "Fuel for Thought". www.newyorker.com. July 23, 2007.

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• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel.

  Ted Danson

  Oil, Energy, Different

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• Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Jobs, Needs

  "Transcript: State of the States". "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2009.

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• I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

  Fred Upton

  Government, Car, Choices

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