Cory Booker

if this was around during the time of the Wright brothers, we would have never gotten off the ground in exploring air travel.

Our diversity has yielded diversity of thought, diversity of innovation, diversity of accomplishment, and, I think, that is one of the things that makes America great.

I am grateful for that response.

we're not creating a regulatory regime here, an environment that really cultivates and spurs innovation and keeps us competitive.

I just want to say thank you. I know these hearings, as, I think, the Honorable Mr. Rodriguez was hinting at, can often be difficult, but please know I am one of those Senators that just appreciates your work.

So if we're talking about large investments in infrastructure coming from the Federal Government, we as legislators should be looking into that.

But, the omnibus that passed last year called for us to do those things.

I worry that our European allies and others might not be doing enough to help strengthen our security.

this current patchwork of rules as an impediment to testing their cars in the U.S.

We were founded not because we all prayed the same, not because we all looked the same, and not because we all heralded from the same genealogy, but rather because we were a nation of ideals.

And it puts you at a competitive disadvantage to other companies that might be----

we must have regulations that keep pace with innovation.

I want to say that yesterday morning was a perfect metaphor for the United States versus the rest of the world.

This should be bringing left and right together when it comes to issues of economic growth.

We are the net global exporters of innovation, of ideas, of new technology, and we need to stay on that cutting edge.

I think all the panelists here believe that we should be a nation that makes sure that we are safe.

It is not just Canada... It is France, dense country, big cities. They are doing one time going to the government, creating a use case.

We should collect data. As you agree, data is important.

every single day that we have a restrictive, overburdensome, unnecessary regulatory environment, we allow other nations to outpace us.

We routinely underestimate the impact, the economic impact, when we have a new innovation.

Right now in America, we are killing innovation as a result of this. We are killing jobs.

We have a regulatory regime that is undermining innovation at home and spawning it in other places.

I think Captain Canoll said it clearly, that other European high-density airports are seeing the same problems, not more.

I have a lot of concerns about what we are doing to choke innovation and through overly burdensome regulation.

I just want to jump in, if you don't mind, really quick, to some of New Jersey's specific issues that have me concerned.