"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?"
"Would that not be a reasonable thing for the Congress to do?"
"You know these people cannot replace these cars. And you have done your duty over and over again and said, 'Replace those cars.'"
"The choice should have been to put them in the middle so that either end would have the most crashworthy cars."
"I will have to ask whether it was worth the investment."
"Your testimony has been really indispensable to this hearing. It's riveting testimony."
"I tell you one thing, it's easy to go to sleep on any kind of moving vehicle, especially a train."
"When you develop standards, have you found that transit systems across the United States readily develop these standards, and did WMATA do so?"
"Mr. Millar, your testimony is replete with standards. I mean, they're the kind of standards that I think the public thought were required."
"I want to once again thank Chairman Stephen Lynch for his attention to Metro by responding to my request early in his tenure as the new Chair of this subcommittee with a hearing on April 24th, and aga..."
"Indeed, the financial incentive was, in fact, to do this."