Rae Tyson Safety Quotations

There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you have to look at the overall safety record.

We have no comment on it until we're ready to release it. It's still a fluid process at this point. We look forward to significant fuel savings without sacrificing safety or doing harm to the American economy.

We set a standard that provides tremendous benefits without compromising safety or causing severe economic damage to the auto manufacturers.

It just doesn't make sense to us to address one safety problem and along the way create a new one.

Congress has given us the authority to set safety standards. We're merely restating our authority. We're the agency that sets standards. Our standards are not minimum standards.

The beauty of the current approach to school bus safety ... is that it doesn't require kids to do anything but be in their seats. If you introduce seat belts, there has to be someone making sure the kids are buckled in.

They certainly suggest an agency that is very, very committed to improving highway safety.