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I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan. -- Rick Snyder
People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong. -- Robert Lutz
What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.' -- Henry Paulson
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. -- Tom Allen
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need. -- Adam Osborne
The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today. -- Ted Strickland
What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself. -- Amity Shlaes
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. -- James Surowiecki
We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry. -- Richard Trumka
Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs. -- Jennifer Granholm
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. -- Ted Danson
The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars. -- Jennifer Granholm
The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry. -- Akio Toyoda
If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles. -- Martin Winterkorn
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility. -- Stewart Udall
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants. -- Jennifer Granholm
Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on. -- Jennifer Granholm
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal. -- Jennifer Granholm
We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee. -- Lamar Alexander
President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.' -- Rahm Emanuel
I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible. -- Eric Ries
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history. -- Rahm Emanuel
In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. -- Mark Zandi
The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto. -- Dennis Miller
If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry. -- Warren Buffett
I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry. -- Robert James Thomson
Bill Ford is somebody who wants to move American auto industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle. -- Jennifer Granholm
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel... -- Ted Danson
I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result. -- John Boehner
I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view. -- Chris Paine

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