This document is a collection of 50 quotes related to cars and the automobile industry arranged over 28 pages. The quotes discuss various topics such as the uses of automobiles beyond transportation, the decline of the US auto industry, government assistance to the industry, the environmental impact of cars, and the role of design in the success of the industry. Many of the quotes are attributed to political leaders, auto industry executives, and other public figures commenting on different aspects of cars and the automobile industry.

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Thomas Broadfoot IIIThomas Broadfoot III
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"Uses are always much broader than
functions, and usually far less
contentious. The word function
carries overtones of purpose and
propriety, of concern with why
something was developed rather
than with how it has actually been
found useful. The function of
automobiles is to transport people
and objects, but they are used for a
variety of other purposes--as
homes, offices, bedrooms,
henhouses, jetties, breakwaters,
even offensive weapons." -
Frank Smith
"Going to church doesn't
make you a Christian any
more than going to a
garage makes you an
automobile." -
Billy Sunday
"The beef industry has
contributed to more
American deaths than all
the wars of this century,
all natural disasters, and
all automobile accidents
combined." -
Neal Barnard
"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
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"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
"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
"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
"If you don't have an
auto industry, you
will not be secure as a
nation because you
won't have a
backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the
means to you keep you secure." - Jennifer Granholm
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"I do know that all of the
Michigan delegation worked very
hard as related to the revival of
the auto industry. There was
really a choice between
bankruptcy and liquidation.
There was no one that was
willing to come up not only with
the cash to keep them afloat but
also to serve the warranties of
everyone, you and I that drive all
these cars. There was no one
that could have picked up those
pieces other than the federal
government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,]
Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates." - Fred Upton
"I am designating a new
Director of Recovery for Auto
Communities and Workers
to cut through red tape and
ensure that the full
resources of our federal
government are leveraged to
assist the workers,
communities, and regions
that rely on our auto
industry." - Barack Obama
"Technical progress and
more comfortable living
permit the systematic
inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and
exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may
be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how
much it may serve as a prop for the status quo it is also gratifying to the managed
individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and
speeding the automobile are fun." - Herbert Marcuse
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"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
"Detroit is an urban hell. But even in
this city of the dying auto industry,
there is reason to hope, if they
manage to combine the creative
forces of designers and other
intellectual "suppliers" in other
ways." - Charles Landry
"The reason American cars don't
sell anymore is that they have
forgotten how to design the
American Dream. What does it
matter if you buy a car today or
six months from now, because
cars are not beautiful. That's why
the American auto industry is in
trouble: no design, no desire." -
Karl Lagerfeld
"Evil is thus a kind of parasite on
goodness. If there were no good
by which to measure things, evil
could not exist. Men sometimes
forget this, and say, there is so
much evil in the world that there
cannot be a God. They are
forgetting that, if there were no
God, they would have no way of
distinguishing evil from
goodness. The very concept of
evil admits and recognizes a
Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an
Order. Nobody would say that his
automobile was out of order if he
did not have a conception of how
an automobile ought to run." -
Fulton J. Sheen
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"IT and the entire
communications business clearly
have the greatest potential for
growth. But if you're talking
about sheer size, the steel and
auto industries will remain at the
top." - Ratan Tata
"Health care costs blunt the
competitive edge of American
entrepreneurs, from the auto
industry to internet start-ups." -
Tom Allen
"Money differs from an automobile
or mistress in being equally
important to those who have it and
those who do not." -
John Kenneth Galbraith
"All of the biggest technological
inventions created by man - the
airplane, the automobile, the
computer - says little about his
intelligence, but speaks volumes
about his laziness." - Mark Kennedy
"I never rode in an automobile
until I was 12." -Loretta Lynn
"Love is much nicer to be in than
an automobile accident, a tight
girdle, a higher tax bracket or a
holding pattern over
Philadelphia." - Judith Viorst
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"The future of the German
automobile industry is very much
at stake. Will we help shape the
upheaval that goes along with the
shift to electric cars or will we
suffer from it? We are the country
of automobiles. If we aren't able
to remain out front
technologically, it will be painful.
That is one of the decisive
questions when it comes to jobs,
income and prosperity - and not
just for a few of the wealthy or
super-rich, but for a huge number of people." - Joschka Fischer
"The police have enough work to keep
them busy regulating automobile
traffic, preventing robberies and
crimes of violence and helping lost
children and little old ladies find their
way home. As long as the police
confine themselves to such activities
they are respected friends of the
public. But as soon as they begin
inquiring into people's private morals,
they become nothing more than
armed clergymen." - Alan Watts
"Capitalism is always in danger of
inspiring men to be more concerned
about making a living than making a
life. We are prone to judge success by
the index of our salaries or the size of
our automobiles, rather than by the
quality of our service and relationship
to humanity-thus capitalism can lead
to a practical materialism that is as
pernicious as the materialism taught
by communism. " -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"We commend GM for being
the first out of the starting
gate in the Great Plug-In
Car Race of 2007. GM's
announcements are the
biggest victories yet for
CalCars.org and other PHEV
advocates. Now our
campaign is in third gear.
We'll work with the auto
industry, government, fleet
buyers and advocates to get
to the day -- soon, not in a
decade -- when customers
can buy PHEVs as easily as
any other car." - Felix Kramer
"It is not the style of
clothes one wears, neither
the kind of automobile
one drives, nor the
amount of money one has
in the bank, that counts.
These mean nothing. It is
simply service that
measures success." -
George Washington Carver
"It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving." - Henrietta Mears
"What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will
hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose
of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes
indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles." - Jane Jacobs
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"If any vestige of the
American automobile
industry is to survive, it
must involve state-of-
the-art vehicles that are
not equal to but surpass
the best imports in every
way." - Brock Yates
"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
"The frequency of automobile
accidents is declining in North
Carolina, but the severity of
accidents involving bodily
injury is rising in the state.
That's something we will keep
our eyes on in preparing our
request next February." -
Tim Lucas
"A business like an automobile,
has to be driven, in order to get
results." - B. C. Forbes "If the
automobile had followed the
same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million
miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely
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"The single factor most
responsible for the disruption
of the family is the
automobile. Its full effect
cannot be assessed. Modern
life, as we know, would be
impossible without the
ubiquitous motorcar. It
broke up the old family and
community." -
Alexander Lowen
"If you can leave two black
stripes from the exit of
one corner to the
braking zone of the
next, you have enough
horsepower." -
Mark Donohue
"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
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