05/04/2009
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"The choice should have been to put them in the middle so that either end would have the most crashworthy cars."
"You know these people cannot replace these cars. And you have done your duty over and over again and said, 'Replace those cars.'"
"Would that not be a reasonable thing for the Congress to do?"
"What was the reason, do you believe, we prohibited ourselves from providing for the safety of the public and rapid transit the way we do in other common carriers?"