The mayor has taken a tremendous step forward and it is clear he is doing everything possible to get the new ballpark done. We appreciate his efforts.

You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.

I felt some guilt taking from Ruth. I'm exploiting the opportunity being a thief. I was disappointed when I was put on the floor.

Hey, we've got a chance to go to the medal round, if we don't slip up here against somebody else.

This (crime) is particularly heinous, ... He's small, and there's no indication that he has any association with gang activity.

A woman who has no insurance or doctor could come in and get tested and walk out with insurance and with a doctor for prenatal care. About 50 women a month sign up to have their babies at Paradise Valley Hospital, just from that program.

It would be nice to have a spot where people would be scheduling around us.

With our significant presence already in the region, and the fact that California is one of the largest issuers of municipal bonds in the country, it just made sense for us to have a trading desk in the state. We have a total of 68 branch offices in California, Nevada and Hawaii, and we also run a public finance office in Los Angeles, so we know these markets well.

Well, that's what I wanted to do and I would pay the price to do that.

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks