I hope I am a better congressman now than I was 5 years ago.

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.'

It takes one day to take down consumer confidence, but several months to build it back up.

This administration seems bound and determined to wield their sequester--automatic, across-the-board cuts-- like a club in order to drive their political agenda. Their latest move? These politically motivated flight delays being felt by…

the chapter is chapter 7, it is not a new chapter in automobile history.

Is that the policy we are talking about?

So you had zero cars that had been produced when you got the loan.

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 going to do, and you ended up at half the…

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?

Well, if you will take this message, that not only do we care but that we are going to do something about that.

I am committed to working with each one of you to do just that.

We must find some standard to be able to tie the economic interest globally that we have.