There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.