War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.