Corrine Brown Quotes

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

The rail service is important for my district.

There is no passenger railroad service anywhere in the world that is not subsidized.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

I think it's only fair that Americans take into account who can keep them safe. Who has the best ideas for defeating ISIS. And protecting us here at home. I think I have laid out what I believe would work.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.

I will never, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American people.