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"Immigration is a good thing, or we wouldn’t even have a country, but we are going to have to start doing it legally and enforcing it.
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- Mary Lau, of the Retail Association of Nevada, discussing the issue of illegal immigration.
- Thursday, December 8, 2005.
"Mrs. Derby is a very nice lady but she has about as much of a chance of winning this race as she does the Kentucky Derby. In my view I think this is a race that will be won or lost on the Republican side.
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- Alfredo Alonso, of Lionel, Sawyer and Collins, discussing Democrat Jill Derby running in the second congressional district. - Wednesday, December 7, 2005.
"I think that everybody knows where the population of the state is, but everybody also knows where the resources are in terms of where your decision makers are and where the head of state government is. I don’t think there is much likelihood that anybody is going to undertake the fiscal issue of trying to move the state capital 450 miles south.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei, discussing the possibility of the state capital moving to Southern Nevada - Tuesday, December 6, 2005.
"We roll back taxes now, we are going to be behind in all of those categories you just raised. We are going to be at the bottom of the damn barrel in education, in social issues, and then watch the businesses come here. They will not come here if we cannot provide a decent educated worker, a skilled worker, to supply that business.
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- Marybel Batjer, Harrah’s Communications, discussing rolling back taxes in the next legislative session. - Monday, December 5, 2005.
"She has turned down applications for families that were best friends of myself, my brother, and my dad. She is going to vote her conscience and I really admire her for that and I think that is what public service is all about and that is where I get my interests from. "
- Danny Tarkanian, candidate for Secretary of State, discussing his mother Lois Tarkanian Las Vegas City Councilwoman, and public service. - Thursday, December 1, 2005.
"Maybe she has taken a page out of the Dina Titus book where she is going to launch a very aggressive campaign and go after him right off the bat."
- Mike Hackett discussing Catherine Cortez Masto’s comments that she would have taken a different approach than Chanos in the recent controversy regarding golf course developer Bill Walters' land deal before the Las Vegas City Council. - Wednesday, November 30, 2005.
"In early 1979 there was a major federal disclosure of wire tap information that indicated that, in fact, there were hidden ownerships in a number of hotels and casinos so we immediately opened investigations. We called people forward, and in the end we took away seven gaming licenses in the first six months of my office term."
- Former Governor Robert List, discussing the results of investigations into hotels and casinos in Las Vegas and their mob ties. - Tuesday, November 29, 2005.
"There is an enemy out there that is so evil in the world and we have to confront that enemy, and if we don’t recognize what that enemy is, they are going to continue to come to our shores and attack us here and that is why taking the fight to them was, I believe, the right move."
- US Senator John Ensign discussing the war in Iraq. - Monday, November 28, 2005.
- 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.
