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Auto Industry Quotes

Jobs, policy, and the pulse of American manufacturing.

For a lot of families, the Auto industry wasn't abstract — it was the job that paid the bills. These quotes range from personal stories to big claims about the industry standing for the health of the middle class.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Quotes by Tom Allen

The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

Quotes by Ted Strickland

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

Quotes by Stewart Udall

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

Quotes by Stacy Brown-Philpot

Ale Quotes

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.

Quotes by Robert Lutz

I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan.

Quotes by Rick Snyder

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio,...

Quotes by Rahm Emanuel

The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.

Quotes by Martin Winterkorn

I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international.

Quotes by Li Shufu

America Quotes

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

Quotes by Henry Paulson

I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go...

Quotes by Eric Ries

If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes.

Quotes by Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that.

Quotes by Angela Merkel

What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.

Quotes by Amity Shlaes

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Frequently Asked Questions

What angle do these auto industry quotes take?
A mix of personal and political — from a worker noting everyone in their family worked in the Auto industry, to political claims about the industry as proof of a standing middle class.
Why is the auto industry such a common quote topic?
It's tied closely to jobs, family livelihoods, and national identity in the U.S., so it comes up in both personal stories and political speeches.
Do any of these quotes connect health care to the auto industry?
Yes — one argues that rising medical costs weaken how well American entrepreneurs can compete, pointing to the auto industry alongside internet start-ups as an example.
Is there a policy angle in this collection?
One quote calls for a rational transportation policy that balances individual convenience, resource use, and urban-living values, treating the auto industry as part of a bigger planning question.
Do these quotes treat the industry as strictly economic?
Not entirely — one ties it to a sense of America standing strong, using the industry's health as a stand-in for the country's own.

Others zoom out to policy — health care costs, transportation balance, urban living — showing how tied the industry is to broader American economic life.