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"One of my patients asked me the other day, 'Gosh Dr. Titus, what’s the next mountain you’re gonna climb?' I said it’s gonna be the easy one, Capitol Hill."
- Dr. Robin Titus, running in the Republican primary to take on U.S. Nevada Senator Harry Reid. She is a mountain climber, and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. - Wednesday, November 25, 2009.
"Nobody’s perfect, but I’m certainly not gonna help anybody whose running against him. "
- Former Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich, discussing her support for the reelection of Governor Jim Gibbons, despite Brian Sandoval’s attempt to win her support.
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009.
"It is clearly two states, and the population might all be in Vegas, but you have a lot of power, particularly in state government, concentrated up North. And being in Carson City with the Capital there, and the Legislature there, it is amazing how disconnected it often seems, from the reality in the South.
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- David McGrath Schwartz, Capital Bureau Reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, with political observations after having moved from Las Vegas to Carson City. - Monday, November 23, 2009.
"It like these folks got up in the stupid tree and jumped off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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- George Harris, Publisher, Liberty Watch Magazine, deriding the Legislature for expanding taxation instead of cutting spending during the last session. - Thursday, November 19, 2009.
"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.