We're the largest investor-owned health-care company in the country. We feel like it's incumbent on us to participate.

He never had any relationship to the company to begin with. ... He never even practiced here. We specifically never lobby him.

Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other company in the country. We're simply not immune to that. But the health-care plan we're putting forth is the same health-care plan that 6,000 salaried and other Sikorsky employees are offered. It's a good health-care plan.

This company was bought, not sold. I chased Jim around the country for five months because I saw what he had.

The health care product will be on the line of similar product that the company has introduced in US and in other countries.

The way our system was set up in this country, none of us are ever taught how to drive to begin with. We're simply just taught to pass a test.