"I want our carriers so competitive that we don't pay them anything."
"I want to you stop that. I want to you change your mindset and start doing away with rules that are strangling our shipbuilding economy."
"We desperately need jobs. We desperately need industry."
"I think we need to have the number of rules going down every year."
"I implore you, let's stop ruling these people to death, get off their backs and let them do their business."
"I want to be talking about 1,000 American-flagged ships."
"I truly believe that our regulatory morass is strangling commerce in this country, and it will strangle our entire economy if we don't get it under control."
"It appears to me that with our excess of rules that we have choked off a valuable American industry in shipping."
"You know, this just appears to me to be absolutely absurd."
"I absolutely agree with what Mr. McDermott said a minute ago, that the best thing we can do to resolve this situation is to provide jobs for people."
"we need them to take risk if we are going to create these jobs and create this small business economy."