The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

The reaction in the United States has occurred in no other country in the world. We need to understand the concerns of the people in the U.S. who are worried about this transaction and make sure that they are addressed to the benefit of all parties.

While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses.