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- Holiday - No quote available at this time. Please check back Monday afternoon. - Thursday, November 24, 2005.
"I heard today that Osama Bin Laden may have died in the earthquake that they had in Pakistan, and if that's the case, I certainly wouldn't wish anyone harm, but if that's the case, that's good for the world."
- Harry Reid ( D ) U. S. Senator, discussing the search for Osama Bin Laden. - Wednesday, November 23, 2005.
"The problem is the global economy...When you look at what you have to do to compete we (America) just can’t. In China they have people working eighteen hours a day seven days a week for nickels, and if you don’t like it, fine, you are out of here and we will get somebody else to do it. There is just no way to make that work in America. We have to find a way to fit in to the global economy."
- John Griffin, The Crowell Group, discussing the General Motors (GM) layoff where GM is cutting 30,000 jobs across the US by 2008. - Tuesday, November 22, 2005.
"I generally support some (tax) rollbacks, but I want to make sure we are meeting the needs of the state."
- State Senator Bill Raggio (R) Washoe 3, discussing his support of tax rollbacks in the next legislative session. - Monday, November 21, 2005.
"No, no because being the governor here (in Nevada) somebody needs to love numbers and to love budgets. Oscar loves people, and Oscar loves to touch people. You’ll always find Oscar back with the people who are the heartbeat of this community… He is about the citizen, about the community, and about the people. "
- Carolyn Goodman, of The Meadows School and wife of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, replying to Sam Shad’s question “Would he (Mayor Goodman) be a great governor?" - Thursday, November 17, 2005.
"Whenever the Democratic Party decides to have a firing squad they always form a circle."
- Larry Matheis, Executive Director of the Nevada State Medical Association, discussing problems within the Democratic Party. - Wednesday, November 16, 2005.
"I think we have to guard in Nevada against the initiative petition process that is really taking hold here in Nevada… it (initiative petitions) is nothing but a campaign ploy to promote the candidate that is sponsoring that initiative and that is what has to be exposed in this state, that certain candidates are promoting themselves by running feel good, sound nice initiative petitions. "
- Marlene Lockard, of Capital Strategies and the Dina Titus Campaign, discussing the problems with the growth of initiative petitioning in Nevada. - Tuesday, November 15, 2005.
"Basically what the Culinary Union is saying is ‘If you do not allow us to unionize your facility even though your workers don’t want to do that, that we will go after you all across the nation and not allow you to do business.’ So what we are talking about here is a Culinary Union coming from Las Vegas up to northern Nevada and trying to influence people up here."
- John Sande III, Partner at Jones Vargas, discussing the controversy between the Culinary and Station Casinos. - Monday, November 14, 2005.
"We are collecting too much money. It belongs to the public and I would think that most of my colleagues would agree that we don’t need to collect it and then turn it around and send it back to them in a check. That doesn’t make sense. We just don’t need to collect it in the first place. I think we ought to roll back any tax that we increased…you just have to be fair. "
- State Senator Randolph Townsend (R) Washoe 4, discussing the $300 million tax rebate and rolling back taxes because our state is collecting too much money. - Thursday, November 10, 2005.
"It is a cliché. It is not the crime; it is the cover up that always ends up being the biting issue. "
- Clay Jenkinson, Presidential Historian & Jefferson Scholar, discussing the controversies Bush and past presidents have had and the current indictment of Scooter Libby. - Wednesday, November 9, 2005.
"She doesn’t have to do anything. She is choosing to do that (resign) because my wife and I have been married for 21 years. We have a true partnership and an incredible relationship, and my wife’s position is the same as my position which is we as a family need to think about what our family can do for the state of Nevada…I am not having my wife do anything, my wife is more then well equipped to make her own decisions."
- New Attorney General for the State of Nevada George Chanos discussing his wife’s resignation as Chief Deputy Attorney General in charge of Consumer Affairs. - Tuesday, November 8, 2005.
"By having this energy super highway, which is the best way to think of a DC Transmission line, you have created economies of scale. We can develop a whole lot of wind projects feeding into the line. So we think it actually makes wind power more economically viable to have it attached to a project like this."
- Scott Farris of Northern Lights, discussing a plan to build DC Transmission lines through the eastern part of Nevada. This project will use several different types of energy sources. - Monday, November 7, 2005.
"I am a little disappointed in some of the casino operators they really withhold the effort. With all of the hard work you would think that the private sector would step up and take advantage of it. "
- Las Vegas Mayor, Oscar Goodman, discussing the developments in the downtown Las Vegas area. - Thursday, November 3, 2005.
"You know we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it. I’m saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb. "
- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, discussing how he would solve the problem of “taggers” defacing freeways with graffiti. - Wednesday, November 2, 2005.
