Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"And I would ask you this. Might we be looking at something more than just the fatigue factor?"

"Well, when you hear a pilot say that, 'We were distracted,' that's not sufficient reason to fly for lots and lots of minutes, more than an hour--not quite--without responding to the--to a tower or a s..."

"You wouldn't ask a brain surgeon to go--to take care of your need if he was up 8 hours doing surgery someplace else."

"Just because you can raise some money to start a new airline doesn't mean that you ought to be in the industry."