I got a call from the Governor of California, Governor Schwarzenegger, one day, thanking me for my work on hydrogen.

We're really concerned about this imbalance with the Chinese. Fix it, Congress. You owe it to us, as an automobile manufacturer, to fix it.

Let me thank the Senator from California, Mrs. Boxer, and certainly Senator Reid and others. This vote was very important. The question for the Senate and the Congress is when 25, 26 million people wake up in this country and go looking…

I think it's clear from this discussion, that we all know we are unbelievably dependent on foreign sources of oil.

This piece of legislation this afternoon is a payroll tax exemption-- trying to encourage small- and medium-sized businesses that are ready to expand and capable to expand--giving them extra incentive to hire people and put them back to…

Nobody knows what ARRA is, in terms of the acronym, but it's the stimulus funds or the economic stimulus funds.

I guess all of you are betting on a future that many of us hope will exist, and it probably will only exist if we understand the need to change public policy to try to lead in that direction, as opposed to sitting around and waiting for…

If we're trying to promote economic recovery here, why would we not make the investment here?

I offered the Buy American provisions in the Economic Recovery Act, and, you know, some of my colleagues had an apoplectic seizure about it.

But, agreement is good news, and that never leads the news.

I think that moving toward an electric drive future makes a great deal of sense for our country.

If the Government supports this new path, if it helps to build these concentrations of electrification that are so crucial to jumpstarting a new, national transportation system, then that is a game changer.