Political Quotes

“I commend my colleague from Florida for a very excellent statement regarding airport security. As many colleagues here, over the weekend, I, too, traveled and met with some airport administrators and officials. Regardless of where you are in the country, the message is the same. These are people who don't particularly wear any labels of Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Liberal, whatever those labels may mean to some, but to most Americans out there, the issue of being more secure on something as fundamental as air travel is basic. They don't understand why the Republican House leadership has refused to join the 100 Members of this body and the overwhelming majority of people involved in the airline industry in getting federalization of these workers and making airports as secure as possible. I served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic and many people were going back home there on that flight yesterday. One young man served in the Navy, and he just received his leave and was going back to visit his parents from the Dominican Republic. Another woman who escaped the World Trade Center tragedy lost her life on the flight yesterday. Obviously, we don't make any equation of terrorist acts to what happened yesterday upon the preliminary information. But it heightens the security that people want to have in air travel.”