Tom Carper actually said...

"I think it is helpful and it is yet another reason why we have to turn these things on and try them rather than maybe build the perfect plan and only then confront it with the real world."

"We could learn from other States what they are doing well or what they did not do well. We learn from their mistakes."

"There is no substitute for jumping in the pool. We are not going to learn to swim unless we do that."

"We should be doing as good a job with respect to managing our finances as well as we are in Dover in handling the airlift and other important duties."