I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'
— Henry Paulson
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'
The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
