Ford has always been willing to listen. But the reality is that their products have continued to lag behind much of the industry in environmental performance, ... Ford and GM are in junk-bond status. It would be insane to keep offering the same products.

We want observational data that shows which models fit the reality of nature.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

We certainly didn't want to blindside the city in any way. The reality is we don't have that much time to continue to deal with the politics of the city. They have a lot of hard work to do, a lot of hard decisions to make with the repeal referendum coming up. We don't have time to wait.

The reality of the equation is this is that we can't just hope that when debt service falls off that all our problems are solved. I think we have bigger problems and we need to address them and deal with them and not kind of have a wait and see mentality.