Chrysler Quotes

• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Business, Credit

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.295, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

  Stuart Varney

  Keys, Government, Want

  "Obama Wants to Control the Banks" by Stuart Varney, www.wsj.com. April 4, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

  Lee Iacocca

  Years, Four, Months

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jobs have already started to surge. Since my election, Ford announced it will abandon its plans to build a new factory in Mexico and will instead invest $700 million in Michigan, creating many, many jobs. Fiat/Chrysler announced it will invest $1 billion in Ohio and Michigan creating 2,000 American jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Ohio, Creating

  Source: www.esquire.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along the Watchtower" sound like a Disney tune, hosts an old-school radio show, and turns up in some unusual places, like ads for Chrysler and Victoria's Secret.

  Jay Michaelson

  School, Dark, Roots

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In America, we need to go forward in nationalizing several large corporations: I think that's possible; we nationalized General Motors; we nationalized several of the big banks, de facto; we nationalized Chrysler; we nationalized AIG. I think there will be more crises, and at some point, rather than being bailed out by the government, the public may keep the corporations it has to rescue.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Thinking, Government, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

  Richard Hell

  New York, Empires, Shifting

  Source: pitchfork.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

  Denis Hayes

  Taken, Technology, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Goodbye, Jobs, Suicidal

  "Let Detroit go bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Powerful, Home, Blue

  4 Copy quote

• Chrysler builds great cars.

  Lee Iacocca

  Car

  4 Copy quote

• I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

  Lee Iacocca

  Warranty, Sells

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.

  Tom Ford

  New York, Cities, Shoes

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart

  Amor Towles

  Mean, Heart, Night

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Adventure, Night

  4 Copy quote

• The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

  Austin Ligon

  Administration, Action, Rapids

  4 Copy quote

• It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

  Lee Iacocca

  Emotional, Sold Out

  5 Copy quote

• Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.

  Steven Rattner

  Government, Bail, Administration

  "The Liberation of General Motors". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Jobs, Ideas

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, President, Ships

  "Biden Makes Final Sales Pitch in Ohio, Calls Romney 'Shameless'" by Arlette Saenz, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

  Michael Moore

  Mass Destruction, Melting, Weapons

  "Goodbye, GM" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
  what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
  what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
  what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
  can you doubt we were made for each other?

  Lyle Lovett

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

  Martin Filler

  Office, Ceilings, Towers

  8 Copy quote

• The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

  Gene Hackman

  Jobs, Team, Night

  8 Copy quote