This nation has been at war, ... Airlines are the front line of that war. We wouldn't think of contracting out our army to protect us against an open foreign invasion. We shouldn't think of contracting out responsibility of defending the internal United States against covert attacks.

would not be a step forward. At best it would be a step sideways.

The carriers seem unable to muster the discipline to reasonably price their product,

If you make a comment like that, those words have consequences. People take note of someone saying something like that, and you have to substantiate those remarks. She didn't.

If we elevate security without addressing the industry's liquidity, there will be no aircraft for the public to board,

Without direct financial intervention by the federal government we could soon see the financial liquidation of the airline industry, ... That is a very serious problem.  Aviation represents 10 percent of our gross domestic product. That's $700 billion dollars of a $7 trillion economy and the underpinning of mobility on which our whole economy depends.