I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Don't worry about planning every step of your life.

Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.

I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars.

Generally cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.