The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.