Political Quotes

“I fully appreciate the gentleman's position on this issue, but it is my understanding that it is the intention of the administration to do an upgrading and make sure that these Huey helicopters will be in performance. Now, we do have problems with the Hueys. There is no question about that. But we also have problems with the Blackhawk helicopters. We do not even have properly trained Colombian officers even to operate and to maintain the Blackhawk helicopters, even if we should give them three of them. While I can appreciate the concerns of the gentleman from New York here, our concern is that they already know how to operate these Hueys. We do have maintenance problems with them, but it is our hope that the administration will fulfill their commitment to make sure that we not only provide proper maintenance, because in fact these Huey helicopters can be operated and piloted by Colombian officers, that is the concern that we have.”