Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"We have lots of brilliant people doing things, but we don't have enough."

"What might we do to prevent-- what would you recommend that we do to prevent intimidation of whistleblowers and blocking their points of views?"

"People are anxious to go places, they still crowd airplanes, there are still huge delays and so forth, but the overriding concern is safety."

"I'd rather end his career than have my wife and my children on that airplane, I can tell you that."