Yesterday’s meeting of Metro’s Customer Service Committee featured a full agenda of important topics, whether it was about the sorry state of the transit system’s escalators, the controversial bag checks, communication between the agency and riders, or the idea of shutting down Metro earlier on weekends to save money and gain maintenance time. But perhaps the most important thing we learned during the proceedings is that this latest vintage of the Metro board might just be the most quotable one ever. Here’s a collection of our favorite quotes from yesterday’s proceedings inside Metro HQ.

Customer Service Committee Chairman Tom Downs on escalators: “Escalators are not rocket science. We just have to admit we bought some junk and now we have to replace it.”

Downs on Metro’s similarities to Pepco: “It’s painful to watch Pepco go through the accountability process. We don’t have a very good story either. The severity of the problem is not near power outages, but the anger at times is equal. It’s important for the authority to acknowledge how we go there. We’ve done a lot of stupid things.”