Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.