Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, one of the parts of this debate that I think is perhaps confusing to people is the assertion that paperwork is not important. We certainly want to relieve American small businesses of any paperwork which is unnecessary. But I think most reasonable Americans would agree that there are certain types of paperwork which can become very necessary. For example, let us suppose that a jet plane which was a cargo plane had a particular type of cargo which had to be labeled ``cargo only'' and flown from one destination to another to arrive safely, and the cargo they had in some cases were oxygen cannisters; but let us suppose that cargo which happened to be oxygen cannisters was not labeled ``cargo only'' and ended up on a passenger plane. It is paperwork. Well, actually this happened, that some oxygen cannisters ended up on a passenger plane instead of a cargo plane because they were not labeled ``cargo only.'' Paperwork. There was an explosion and 110 people were killed on a ValuJet, which I think everyone remembers the crash in the Florida Everglades. The FAA pointed out that the company knowingly failed to package, mark, label, identify, or certify a shipment of 125 unexpended oxygen generators and 10 empty generators aboard the ValuJet. So we cannot say paperwork is not important.”