I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me. A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company - and how excited they are about creating it. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. Without them, I would have accomplished very little. I just happen to be the face of the companies.