Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I simply want to point out that there is only so much space in the sky. And when you already have the busiest airport, and busiest does not mean people walking into Starbucks. It means planes coming in and taking off. I sit in my living room in the evening and look out and I see them stretched all the way up to Wisconsin, plane, plane, plane, waiting to come in. Of course, there are delays. There will always be delays at O'Hare because we have terrible weather in the winter and the airlines schedule too many flights. That is what happens and that needs to be corrected. But to double the size of O'Hare, the flights in and out of O'Hare, is really dangerous. It is dangerous. We have pollution, noise pollution. We have air pollution. And now we are going to have a safety situation which is really dangerous. Now, that does not solve the problem of capacity, because we need it. We are up to the hilt at O'Hare. Do we expand? What is the most efficient, cheapest, effective way to meet the need for capacity? Peotone. Build another airport.”