When people hurled at him their belief that he was invading Iraq because of oil or a desperation tosuckupto America he would reply "It's worse than you think, I really believe this".
We now have meteorologists, geoscientists and engineers all reporting that they are skeptics of an asserted global warming crisis, yet the bureaucrats of these organizations frequently suckupto the media and suckupto government grant providers by trying to tell us the opposite of what their scientist members actually believe.
While Google's highest profile deals--its acquisitions of YouTube and dMarc--were related to advertising and online content, Schmidt continues to steadily suckup companies related to two lesser-known obsessions: Microsoft and mobile communications.