John Mica actually said...

"I am a strong supporter, as you know, of passenger rail. I think we should be having four times as much service and twice as much employment, and more routes, et cetera, but they have to make sense."

"I think we have to go further, and I think we have to, again, make sure if we are going to use taxpayer dollars--which we probably always will have a portion of taxpayer dollars--we got to make sure w..."

"Amtrak is the key to our future, and competition with the airline industry as well."

"If you work for me and you had a $330 million or a half-a-billion dollar cost overrun and a 4--I give you a 3- to 4-year delay, your butt would be fired."