Political Quotes

“The notion somehow that we are going to establish a system that is going to deal with the problems of an already failed, decentralized, privatized system for hundreds of airports is not micromanagement. Being able to step forward with a Federal program similar to what we had with the Customs Service, what we have benefiting people here in the Capitol, as my good friend from Florida has pointed out, is not micromanagement. What we are doing is acknowledging that the American public deserves our best. The Senate has already ratified by a hundred votes a program that steps up. We are not Europe where we have one or two airports in a small country. We have more airports in a small portion of the United States than they have in the entire European Union. The only way we are going to get the training, the professionalism and the uniform protection around the country is to vote for the Oberstar proposal. I strongly urge my colleagues to do so.”