That will help us (to) transition people out of the hospital and into the community.

All of the evidence that we have says that the beaches are as safe now as they were before the sewage spill.

We know it's not a perfect ranking.

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

We are very concerned in Hawaii about the fact we are the western doorway to the United States. We see a large number of visitors ... and a good proportion of them are from the Far East where we know a good number of emerging diseases are originating.

If you open the way and provide a mechanism for people to contact you, they're going to call. And that's a good thing. We want to de-stigmatize mental illness. We don't want to hide them away or wait until they break the law.

We are disappointed that the court did not acknowledge the many successes that we have had in the last several months.

It's important for us as the western door of America to be as prepared as we can, to help protect not only our people here in Hawaii but the nation.

We are actually very pleased with the report.