In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.