a different type of leader who will aggressively tackle the company's financial, management and operational challenges. |
a leader with vision and experience. |
Both have caused suffering, and both have raised a lot of questions for people. I think it's natural to ask questions such as, why does this happen? And even more profoundly, where was God when this happened? |
If Amtrak fails, intercity passenger rail will be gone in this country, ... If we can't make it at Amtrak, we're all in trouble. |
If he found out I was sleeping, he'd call the local newspaper, ... That's what he did to my predecessor. |
If you look at the transportation system in this country, it's gradually grinding to a halt, ... Now you've got the price of fuel going through the roof, and we've got a whole transportation system that's built on cheap fuel. One of the ways to solve some of the fuel problems cheaply is right here. |
It was a case of two games in one day. We didn't play all that well and I played some (junior-varsity) players who were over with us to give them some experience. It wasn't a slaughter. They scored their runs evenly throughout the innings. |
Obviously, what their goal is - and it's been their goal from the beginning - is to liquidate the company. |
They have no plan for Amtrak other than bankruptcy, |
They want at least one transportation mode that is totally free market. |
We gave up a big hit that scored three runs on one of those open diamonds. It would have been a double on a fenced field. It turned into an inside-the-park home run because she smashed it. On an open field it's going to go. |
We know this won't solve the problem, but this gives them another tool to work with, ... The freight companies have been extremely cooperative. They have opened routes to us that we don't run on. |
We played really solid defense. Once we got the four runs there might have been a little overconfidence, but I guess that's better than having a losing attitude. We let them climb back in but we played solid defense until we could squeeze a run in on them in the ninth inning. |
We're playing a lot better right now. They have confidence. They know they can play defense and that's half the battle. They believe in themselves. |
you've really got an auto-centric mentality among the bureaucratic elite. They've got absolutely no conception of the role that rail plays. ... All they're trying to do is to destroy the company and not have their fingerprints on it. |