Daniel Sullivan actually said...

"To be honest, you should be helping us lengthen runways. This is baffling to me. And my team has tried to explain it to me and I don't understand. So, what is happening? This is nuts."

"maintaining the extensive Alaska national airspace infrastructure, which consists of a mixture of old and new components, is a daunting task for FAA engineers and technicians."

"my state has very unique problems and challenges, 258 communities with no roads, think about that, 82 percent of the communities in my state you can't get to by a road, so you need an airplane."

"Alaska does have a very, very unique challenge. And all the things that you think you are going to do for all the rest of the states is not going to work in Alaska, so it needs its own plan."