Eleanor Norton actually said...

"Frankly, I think that the victims and the public is entitled to hear any interim step we can take, however minor."

"So should some other Federal agency have been charged as more and more cities and States developed mass transit systems?"

"This hearing is not about assigning cause. We don't have the slightest idea. Nobody could possibly know."

"Even if we give Mr. Rogoff the kind of perhaps authority he ought to have, I can tell you without fear of contradiction--leave aside the recession we are in, let's suppose we are in the false boom eco..."