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"Since we didn’t know what the threat was at the time, I controlled not only combat search and rescue helicopters but anti-submarine helicopters as well. Since we weren’t sure who the enemy was we were actually putting war shots on the helicopters, torpedoes, in case there was a submarine threat
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- Captain Michael Glaser, Base Commander, NAS Fallon, who had a Command in the Gulf when the events of September 11th occurred.
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
"I actually think it’s a very positive thing. The fact that, whether it’s Steve Wynn at Wynn, or Gary Loveman at Harrah’s. People who are articulate spokespeople, who are recognized by the national media as being sound business people. It’s what I call the normalization of the gaming industry.
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- Frank Fahrenkopf, President & CEO American Gaming Assoc, discussing Steve Wynn’s attack on the president and congressional Dems(except Senator Reid), because it shows that Gaming is a legitimate business and interest like everyone else is. - Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
"There’s always this possibility of threat and it’s something that we are very much aware of, and taking action to assure that the chance of that is limited for our system.
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- Michael Yackira, President and CEO NV Energy, responding to a question of how safe from cyber attack is the company’s electrical system.
- Monday, November 16, 2009.
"He’s touching on all the right points and I’ve known Schofield over the years. He was State Senator, former Assemblyman. He’s been in Nevada politics for 30, 40 years, at least. And so he’ll be a credible candidate. We’ll take Schofield’s campaign as seriously as we'll take any campaign coming into this next cycle.
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- Congressman Dean Heller, responding to the announcment of Regent Jack Schofield, the 86-year-old Democrat who doesn’t live in Congressional District 2, that he'll challenge Heller in 2010 - Thursday, November 12, 2009.
"It’s not going to be a year, it’s not going to be two years, most predictions are it’s going to be 5 to 10 years.
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- Chris Wicker, Washoe County Democrats, explaining the military timetable for being in Afghanistan.
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
"It would last about 24 hours before you had total anarchy in this country.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend, discussing a realistic threat to our country’s electrical supply. - Tuesday, November 10, 2009.
"I hope we’ve brought to the citizens of the state and to the legal community some confidence that the decisions that are being made by the Supreme Court are academically and scholastically based, with legal research, and are not motivated by some other outside influence.
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- Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Hardesty, discussing his thoughts as he runs for re-election to the Supreme Court
- Monday, November 9, 2009.
"The intensity to market a hotel casino, right now, is off the chart.
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- Anthony Marnell III Chairman and CEO, M Resort Spa and Casino, on what it takes to get people to your property these days.
- Thursday, November 5, 2009.
"Atlantic City is getting creamed by a lot of competition on the east coast. Pennsylvania opened casinos. They’re slot machine only casinos but they’ve taken a lot of customers. Now Pennsylvania is talking about adding table games and that could be a huge blow to the Atlantic City market.
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- Howard Stutz, gaming correspondent, Las Vegas Review Journal discussing how the Borgata is really the only successful gaming property left in Atlantic City. - Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
"I think that when your the front runner, that you become the target. So I’m the target and I’m going to be hit with bullets from not just from Senator Reid’s camp but quite possibly, as you’ve pointed out, from some Republican camps as well. So if I can’t take that now, I shouldn’t be in that game."
- Sue Lowden running against Senator Reid, if she makes it out of the primary, responding to her not remembering the explosive device rigged to the Senator’s family vehicle and a Republican PAC being formed to defeat her.
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
"It’s an issue. It’s a question that he needs to answer.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons on why Brian Sandoval has chosen to run against him.
- Monday, November 2, 2009.
"They almost made it seem like it was DOA it was almost dead on arrival. Like I really didn’t have a chance. That they were not going to support it.
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- Assemblyman Harvey Munford (D) regarding a bill he wanted to sponsor to have a bi-partisan commission take care of reapportionment but his Assembly leadership was strongly against the idea. - Thursday, October 29, 2009.
"It's a very unique culture and people will pay it. Again you’ve got to remember though there’s a very unique class structure in much of Asia. There’s a very distinct difference between the haves and the have not’s and so they are attracting, obviously, those that have the money to gamble and they are trying to obviously attract other Asians, coming from other countries that will spend the big money.
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- Alfredo Alonso, Law Firm of Lewis and Roca, on the idea of a high daily or annual cover charge for the people of Singapore who want to gamble at the new casinos, while having no cover charge for foreigners. - Wednesday, October 28, 2009.
"I know, personally what its like to have to suffer through something that’s just devastating.
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- Christina Keegan, Miss Nevada 2009, who speaks out on rape, abuse and incest having been, herself, a victim of date rape and how she healed and recovered through that process. - Tuesday, October 27, 2009.
"If we’re talking about having an auction, as opposed to an election, then Mark Amodei won’t win.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei running for the chance to take on Senator Reid in 2010, speaking about Senator Reid’s stated goal of raising 25 million dollars for his re-election. - Monday, October 26, 2009.
"I think that this is a moment that we have Nevada’s attention. I think there is urgency in the air and that’s the time when change occurs. And I think this is the time when we can fundamentally transform our economy. And I’m excited about that opportunity.
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- Rory Reid, Democratic candidate for Governor. On why, with all the States problems, he would want to be Governor.
- Friday, October 23, 2009.
