"So, you believe that it is justifiable to essentially close down general aviation and a major commercial and government center of the United States?"
"We want here, equal treatment."
"Your work and the work of this committee is why they are at the table at all."
"The last thing we want to do is to go throw out the baby with the bathwater."
"I particularly appreciate this hearing, because it has given us a study in contrast without evidence that has been an underlying risk/consequences analysis."
"Everyone knew, particularly after 9/11--but they would know in any case--that New York was a particularly vulnerable jurisdiction to planes of every kind."
"This committee has insisted upon it. This is not the goodness of their heart."
"That is very, very bad, very, very bad, and something we are going to have to look into."
"This notion of partnering with small businesses is really important."
"You are going to have to break it up to do anything with small businesses."
"Would you submit for the record here your small business plan and who have gotten those contracts?"