Displaying: 2449 to 2464 of 3530
"I intend to win the primary. and then the general election.
"
- U.S.Senate candidate Byron Georgiou persists, and has raised $1 million, despite attempts by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others, who, on behalf of Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, would like to force him from the Democratic primary. - Monday, August 1, 2011.
"Is it taught, or is it something that somebody has, that’s in them, DNA or a gene? I think it’s a combination of both… you have to unleash it.
"
- Successful Entrepreneur Fred Sibayan, Founder and CEO of Vortex Solutions, thinks some young folks are natural entrepreneurs, but they just don't know it yet. - Thursday, July 28, 2011.
"This is about excellence… We’re fighting mediocrity… Every time a person leaves something they see needs to be done for someone else to do, we lose the chance to actually get it right. "
- Ryan Costella, President of Empowerment Nevada, as the Johnny Appleseed of a social movement with the slogan "Own it!" - Wednesday, July 27, 2011.
"They are almost an arm of the government, so they’ve been reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them. They’re playing an elaborate game... They don’t want to downgrade sooner than the government wants to be downgraded, but they want to be a credible threat, because that plays into the Obama adminitration's hand, so to speak.
"
- Gerald O'Driscoll, Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute, says Moody's, Fitch and S&P are not the only bond raters, they're just the ones the government requires for certain transactions. And yes, they have a dog in the debt-limit fight. - Tuesday, July 26, 2011.
"There’s process and there’s the policy of it. Those two didn’t mix very well in that circumstance.
"
- Assemblywoman Debbie Smith, Washoe District 30, on the last-minute cram-through and subsequent veto of a bill that favored NV Energy, and would have been very expensive for Nevada utility customers. - Monday, July 25, 2011.
"Well, I talked to him a lot about that… and he listened.
"
- Retired Congresswoman and Nevada Republican Matriarch Barbara Vucanovich, who does support GOP congressional candidate Mark Amodei, although he's a more moderate pick than her original choice, Kirk Lippold.
- Thursday, July 21, 2011.
"They pursued these stories because the mainstream press, the network news stations and daily newspapers just thought it was a bit too icky for them to get their hands on.
"
- Glenn Cook, Editorial Writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, on the journalism scandal in England, adds that the tabloid press here at home has proven prowess at breaking news the mainstream media won't touch. - Wednesday, July 20, 2011.
"It’s very much gotten their attention. They understand that Nevada is serious. They understand that we have some sovereignty over here and we want to have some say in our future.
"
- Steve Robinson, member of the Tahoe Regional Planning Association Board, on recently- passed legislation that would enable Nevada to withdraw from the bistate compact if there’s no attitude adjustment from California about Nevada projects at the lake.
- Thursday, July 14, 2011.
"How do you get the experts in redistricting without having a partisan spillover, and that’s clearly what Judge Russell was trying to avoid.
"
- Mark Hutchison, GOP attorney at Tuesday's redistricting hearing, on appointing a committee of special masters consisting of the voter registrars in Washoe, Clark and Carson Counties. - Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
"We will prosecute violent crimes. Especially violent felonies. We will prosecute crimes that involve children. We will prosecute crimes that involve women. Those we will do if I have to do them all myself.
"
- Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, facing a possible 10 percent cut to his already-slashed budget, says lesser crimes would have to be prioritized. - Tuesday, July 12, 2011.
"I think what the unions don’t understand is they will go down the drain with that particular entity or city.
"
- Dorie Guy, Chair of the Washoe Dems, ponders public employee unions in North Las Vegas who sought injunctions against layoffs, even as the city's finances are on the brink of seizure under the state’s severe financial emergency procedures. - Monday, July 11, 2011.
"Shut the sucker down.
"
- Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain didn’t miss a beat concerning the possibility that a debt ceiling resolution might not come in time to avert a government shutdown.
- Thursday, July 7, 2011.
"I’m required to do them at a certain level of efficiency, and I am required to do them at certain level of legal consequence to myself or to members of my organization for failure to act.
"
- Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley confirms that his department has 377 separate state and federal mandates to perform. - Wednesday, July 6, 2011.
"We knew we would get some feedback, but we had no idea the extent that we did get.
"
- Chris Killian, President of the Board of Hot August Nights, describes the furor after the community learned that Reno’s most important event might be lost to Long Beach, California. - Tuesday, July 5, 2011.
"I think some of the comments being made by the other candidates in this race are reckless. They are financially irresponsible.
"
- Democratic State Treasurer Kate Marshall, campaigning for Nevada Congressional District 2, and touting her fiscal background as a qualification. - Monday, July 4, 2011.
"My General Manager has walked at least 750 homes, and in those 750 homes there has never been an issue with our windows, other than a balance spring, and that’s a warranty issue.
"
- Mary Davis, President of J & L Windows, which has been put out of business by 300 separate lawsuits filed under Nevada’s construction defect law. - Thursday, June 23, 2011.
