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

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

I am an industry.

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.