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.

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.

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.

You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

My act is based on my life.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.