"You are only getting paid a fraction, about 30 cents on the dollar of what it costs to do."
"Those are areas that obviously our goal is not to disrupt the ability to carry freight in Alaska at an affordable rate."
"The earlier bill moved last month or 2 weeks ago was in fact moved specifically without a hearing."
"There is no such guarantee in the Constitution."
"This committee does have an obligation to protect the ratepayers of the post office, particularly in light of their year-over-year losses."
"Alaskan Bypass Mail is, in fact, a complex system, carefully constructed as a program designed purposely to use postal taxpayers."
"The bill that we are going to be considering in a markup next week is designed to bring Bypass mail to a 50 percent self-sufficiency with a 50 percent subsidy."
"If we can't, then this exercise is a lot of work for $20 million in savings."
"I am a pro-competition person because it normally leads to innovation, better products, better services, and so on."
"The post office lost $16 billion if calculated under GAAP last year and 5-point-some billion the way government calculates."
"I am going to invite all Alaskan potential carriers of all sort, including bush pilots, to submit anything they want for the record relative to their ability to safely carry passengers."