"the status quo has got to change."
"less than 2 percent on natural resource. What does that tell you?"
"some people do care about it. We just invested $70 billion in the stimulus package."
"I have been noticing an ad that your company has been running on television for the last year quite heavily."
"So it actually costs the taxpayers about $3,500 a week and you can go on a cruise for $599 a week."
"So we could actually send people on six-month cruises for half the price that we're paying to actually have people sit at the dock."
"the people of Puget Sound, by their own decision and own vote, have decided to take on the bulk of the responsibility financially for this project."
"if this committee wants to reward those who want to take responsibility for their own projects, I think this project is designed for this committee."
"I think the time is coming when we are going to have make sure we coordinate transportation policy with land use policy."
"I would ask you to fully fund the $143 million in New Starts as well as the transit projects."