“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.”

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

We weren’t trying to walk him; he just wouldn’t swing at any bad pitches.

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.

Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It’s what we’ve caught at the end of the year, and we’ve got to try to make the best of it.

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.

People under 75 need more seasoning

Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions – economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

We are a muslim country. We don’t know something called colonialism and political parties.

On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it,

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

We had the same mentality – politically, and in a lot of other different ways.