Quotes by Charles E. Wilson

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I don't think that Redwood National Park is an appropriate place for a sewage treatment plant. What kind of a message are you sending from this wonderful area up here? We think that we put $2 billion into a park and then we turn it into a sewage treatment plant.
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But I have always liked bird dogs rather than kennel-fed dogs myself -- you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.
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When the economy slows, people tend not to go on holiday, but they will spend more on small-ticket items like eating out.
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People in, say, Georgia aren't sitting on the front porches singing anymore. They're inside in the air-conditioning, watching cable like everybody else.
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It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.
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We've been wearing sweaters and hats. We had plastic put over the windows outside too.
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I would have to be the repository of the corporate memory. I would have to make sure what we did the last three years is relevant to what we do in the next three years.
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We have never gotten past this round in the playoffs, so the girls are taking this game very seriously. The girls want to get a win, and they will do whatever it takes to get it done.
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Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
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Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
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