The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'