Political Quotes

Peter DeFazio

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Peter DeFazio is a former U.S. Representative from Oregon, serving in the House from 1987 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his progressive stance on various issues, including transportation, infrastructure, and environmental policy. DeFazio played a significant role in shaping legislation related to transportation funding and was a strong advocate for public transit and sustainable practices.

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Oct 29, 2019

It is 1 year and 1 day after the Lion Air crash, a very somber day.

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Oct 29, 2019

Unless it is moving a little too quick.

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Oct 29, 2019

I don't understand how this is going to work when I voted against this process.

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Oct 29, 2019

Can you point to any significant steps that were taken to change the culture and relieve this undue pressure?

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Oct 29, 2019

I am sorry to say I am hesitant about putting my family on a Boeing airplane.

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Oct 29, 2019

The flying public deserves safe airplanes. That is our business.

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Oct 29, 2019

I know that you have lost your board chair. You are still CEO, you still serve on the board.

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Oct 29, 2019

Do you think, in retrospect, it was a mistake to not inform pilots of the existence of the MCAS system?

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Oct 29, 2019

And I hope that I can get a commitment--and I am sure you don't have any problem with that--to do that.

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Oct 29, 2019

We are still unclear about why Boeing designed the 737 MAX to rely on a single point of failure that the company knew could potentially be catastrophic.

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Oct 29, 2019

If you need a reminder of the lives that have been devastated by these tragedies, you can look to the family members.

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Oct 29, 2019

We need answers. But we also know that we need reforms on how commercial aircraft are certified.

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Oct 29, 2019

We are going to get to the bottom of this, and we are going to fix it, and we are going to see it never happens again.

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Oct 29, 2019

I didn't take a back seat to anybody in the issues regarding China.

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Oct 22, 2019

Essentially, you--Tiffany has made a judgment that this would--is not a desirable or sustainable project, and would cause irrevocable environmental harm.

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Oct 22, 2019

I would note that we are wasting a lot of time on a document that has been withdrawn by the Trump administration.

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Oct 22, 2019

So how is a shell company with no assets going to do that, I wonder?

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Oct 22, 2019

I guess this may be normal in this administration, but it is not the way the process is supposed to work.

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Oct 22, 2019

This Administration is once again putting private industry wants at the top of its agenda, risking the health and safety of our nation's ecosystem.

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Oct 22, 2019

I recognize the tremendous political pressure the leadership of the Corps must be facing from this administration to rush approval of this project.

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Oct 22, 2019

I would suggest that any jobs created from this mining proposal will be to the detriment of the lives and livelihoods of native Alaskans.

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Oct 22, 2019

Protection of Bristol Bay is critical to native Alaskan villages that have lived in this area for over 4,000 years.

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Oct 22, 2019

Let me state, right from the start, that the Pebble Mine proposal is a bad idea made even worse by the sham review process currently underway.

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Oct 22, 2019

This project is an abomination, and it does have massive implications, not just for Alaska, not just for the west coast, but for the future of sockeye salmon worldwide.

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