"My question is how in the world did you convince anybody that you could do this kind of production, when you didn't even produce 1 percent of that?"
"It takes one day to take down consumer confidence, but several months to build it back up."
"So you went from 14,000 in the first part of the year, you ramped up and revised the estimate to 542, but then within a three-month time period you couldn't actually project how many cars you were goi..."
"Is that the policy we are talking about?"
"I hope I am a better congressman now than I was 5 years ago."
"So you had zero cars that had been produced when you got the loan."
"the chapter is chapter 7, it is not a new chapter in automobile history."
"So your failure is not based on any negligence or lack of due diligence on your part, it is all these external factors, is that correct?"
"I thought it was very risky to lend against a second generation, which I would agree with, but that was what was required to 'meet the policy requirement.'"
"Can I ask one more yes-or-no question to each one of the panelists?"
"Well, if you will take this message, that not only do we care but that we are going to do something about that."