The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy tobe motivated.

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

As chairman, I commit to keeping Business Roundtable CEOs at the forefront of constructive public policy debates as we pursue an agenda of greater growth and opportunity for all Americans.

I have always looked at business as an opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.

I will certainly not sell my stake in Tata Motors and Tata Steel, and never have, no matter how much I was criticised.