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" I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. "

William Clay Ford, Jr.

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" 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. "

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