Political Quotes

Sean Duffy

The Public Record

U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 7th District (2011–2019).

Quotes by year · 20112026971 total · peak 2025 (168)
2011: 80 quotes2012: 37 quotes2013: 93 quotes2014: 99 quotes2015: 148 quotes2016: 97 quotes2017: 105 quotes2018: 90 quotes2019: 18 quotes2025: 168 quotes2026: 36 quotes
May 12, 2025

We didn’t have to be here. This did not have to be our story.

msnbc.com
May 10, 2025

billions — lots of billions

cbsnews.com
May 8, 2025

This is a system that’s, what — 25 at best, sometimes 50 years old. The Congress and the country haven’t paid attention to it, right? They expect it to work. And so now I think the — the lights are blinking, the sirens are turning, and…

nbcnews.com
May 6, 2025

Don’t overstay your visa. Don’t stay too long.

msnbc.com
May 5, 2025

There was some infrastructure breakdown related to how the information is relayed right now.

cnn.com
May 5, 2025

Duffy has promised the DOT's workforce cuts won't affect airline safety.

cbsnews.com
May 5, 2025

The DOD has promised radical transparency, they should tell us who is qualified to take a helicopter out of the Pentagon.

msnbc.com
May 5, 2025

President Donald Trump has bought into the plan.

cnn.com
May 5, 2025

there's going to be failures and people will lose their lives.

msnbc.com
May 5, 2025

The system that we’re using is not effective to control the traffic that we have in the airspace today.

cnn.com
May 5, 2025

Don’t overstay your visa. Don’t stay too long.

nbcnews.com
May 5, 2025

The FAA doesn’t know, we asked the DOD.

msnbc.com
May 5, 2025

If you’re coming to see some soccer ... go on a road trip. See America.

nbcnews.com
May 5, 2025

We are going to radically transform the way air traffic control looks.

cnn.com
May 3, 2025

Safety must ALWAYS come first.

apnews.com
Apr 30, 2025

On May 1, Duffy announced plans to boost air traffic controller recruiting.

cbsnews.com
Mar 9, 2025

What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?

thenation.com
Mar 6, 2025

What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?

newsweek.com
Feb 26, 2025

This staffing shortage has been a known challenge for over a decade, and this administration is committed to solving it.

cbsnews.com
Feb 26, 2025

If air traffic control is telling you to stop and you roll across the runway, thank God you have an airliner pilot paying attention.

nbcnews.com
Feb 26, 2025

I am going to help the FAA 'remake our airspace' and 'do it quickly.'

cnn.com
Feb 26, 2025

I am going to help the FAA remake our airspace and do it quickly.

cnn.com
Feb 26, 2025

A consequence-free space where you make errors, serious errors, and you don’t pay any kind of price for it, something’s wrong with that.

nbcnews.com
Feb 26, 2025

I witnessed firsthand the dedication, skill and rigor that our future air traffic controllers bring to their training and the urgent need to do all that we can to recruit more people to join in our shared mission of safety in our skies.

cbsnews.com
Feb 24, 2025

I am going to help the FAA 'remake our airspace' and 'do it quickly.'

cnn.com

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