Jean Schmidt: “Eurasia is becoming an emerging market that the United States must pay attention to.”

I want to make sure that Amtrak is profitable in the future so that when I want to use it, it is there for me to use.

I think it is incumbent on all of us to find ways to use those precious dollars in a very wise and judicious manner.

We have to pick up the pennies off the floor. We can't overlook them anymore.

You can't continue to monetize our debt and not see the fiscal cliff before us.