“I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I’d rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.”

It’s amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that’s usable?

A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .

I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

I don’t ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

For all the progress, we recognize we’re very far from the finish line.

I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us.

I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That’s true in America, that’s true in China, that’s true in Germany.

Nobody’s irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we’ve had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I’d like to see that diminish.

When you factor in population growth, it’s clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

And what I’m telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique.

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.