To preserve and protect life and property.

274

It's unbelievable what's happening here, ... We have problems all over the city, flooding all over downtown and every other part of the city.

244

There's no reason to go 50 percent from the free-throw line.

198

For someone to vote against it they can't really represent a very important segment of our community.

192

I think we're just shoving it in people's faces. We're here to win. We're here to go to the (NCAA) tournament.

191

They average about 5 miles per gallon, depending on the route and the load, they change oil about every 5,000 miles and have 18 tires which are predominantly petroleum products. When oil and diesel prices go up, there is a significant impact on the industry.

184

I'm not going to write any blank checks, but in a general concept, I support it, ... The big item is the land, and conceptually we have agreed to do that from the beginning.

156

I kind of felt that people weren't really leaning towards us because of our opponents, but we came in, stepped up and played big and beat Texas. I think that we are going to catch a lot of people's attention.

153

We did not do well on the defensive end. We gave them a lot of uncontested three's. We just didn't defend.

137

Apparently, he's presented it to the news media, but I have not seen what he's proposing.

136

It's frustrating we don't show enough intensity to win. We should have shown them that what happened at Colorado never should have happened, but we didn't.

112

As an industry, maybe we can approach the governor to force CARB to back off and wait for the National Clean Diesel Standards to go into effect, and we can use diesel from more sources (refineries) until then.

94

This is the most disastrous effect on transportation I've seen, even more than the hurricane (Alicia) in the '80s, ... I-10 looks like a swimming pool for four-wheelers.

91

There's no one willing to change their vote, there's no reason to have another vote, ... Right now, my staff is busy looking at how we can cut expenditures in order to meet the numbers we now have.

90