Not only is he putting lives at risk, but he's hurting the American taxpayer right in the pocket.

We've done everything in our power to find this kid alive. If there's something that leads us to go back out, we'll go. (But) we feel we've eliminated any possibility for survival at this point.

What kind of training do the replacement workers have? As this goes on, you'd better believe passengers are at risk.

Our goal was to hang around where we are right now until we got everybody back. I think our team and the coaching staff have done a remarkable job keeping us [afloat] under the circumstances.

Most of my team right now was the one that went through the 7-8 season. You talk to any of my guys and that's the one year they would like to forget about.

The tax structure is good the way it is. Right now what we run a risk of doing is looking at this relatively strong economy and thinking now is the time we can go out grab some of that money for public purposes. The main thing we need to do is keep control of government growth.