Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. It's intriguing. And again, I've actually not just talked the talk; I've walked the walk. I'm always fascinated by these facts and figures that we throw around, and we talk about all the things that we're doing and we talk about General Motors. The General Motors that I understand, the General Motors that my father started with in 1936 as a parts picker, was not the same General Motors that told me in 2009 I could no longer be a dealer, because it wasn't the same General Motors. You see, General Motors kind of went by the wayside and a new General Motors came into view. And as we talk about all these folks that fell in line with what the administration wanted, of course they did. Who do they owe the money to? Who got bailed out in this great auto bailout? Who are the people whose jobs were saved? Who were the people whose pensions were made full and who was left hanging? So we can talk about all these wonderful things that happened, and these are flights of fancy. This gets to be a little bit silly to me when the company that agreed to these new standards was beholden to the people who put them forward. It wasn't good enough that we already had standards on the books. No, no, no, no, 32\1/2\ miles a gallon aren't enough. We've got to get to 54\1/2\ miles a gallon. Why is that? Because that's what we want. We've got to get California involved. We've got to get the EPA involved. We've got to get everybody else involved.…”