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I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.