Jack Reed actually said...

"It amounts to what I call partial disarmament on the part of the safety regulator. That is most disturbing. I would like to see it corrected."

"Giving away billions of dollars in Federal assets to a nonprofit corporation controlled by airlines without any congressional oversight is I believe an ill-conceived idea at best."

"To have a future which would avoid Rhode Island in any way, shape, or form, either through routes or through services, would be, I think, wrongheaded."

"I think it is a dangerous proposal that moves this country in the wrong direction."