"There's nobody in the private sector that would continue to squander the capital that we're squandering right now on a reelection agenda and not on an energy policy that makes sense for America."
"Just tell me, without the government subsidies, who would venture into this wonderland, and I mean wonderland, wondering if they could possibly work if it was their own money?"
"Every penny we're talking about comes out of the American taxpayers' pocket, and not only do they deserve a positive return on that, they should expect that from us."
"Well-intentioned or not, we end up in a situation where we continue to throw good money after bad because we can't stand and tell people, you know what, it was a bad policy."
"It has to be about actually reforming, what it is that we're doing, and if we're not doing it the right way, stand up and say we made a mistake and we're going to change it."
"It really would be nice if we could quit worrying about reelections and start worrying about getting things fixed."
"I think sometimes in the world the shape of your eye or the color of your skin makes you think you're different, absolutely not true. We're all the same."
"It makes absolutely no sense. I can stock a Chevy Cruze, which is about a $17,500 car and turns every 30 to 40 days out of inventory, or I can have a Volt, which never turns and creates nothing for me..."
"It is absolutely insane that we continue down this path."
"It makes absolutely no sense to those people. I am talking about hard-working, taxpaying American public that actually needs transportation to get back and forth to work."
"CAFE standards really don't drive the market; the price of gasoline does."
"If it has such a great value and is such a significant part of our transportation strategy as we go forward, it should pretty much sell itself."