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

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

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

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.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

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

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.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Set your mind first and your body will follow.

She could be a fire hazard. Maybe we should remove her from the ship before she spontaneously combusts.

Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.