We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.

Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin.

Satire today has become a flat ‘tyre'.

I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

Man is a child of his environment