Charles Ramsey Quotations

We are looking into the possibility that it is gang-related, but we are not certain,

Whether or not this will be a reality, I have absolutely no idea, ... The only thing I do know is this: If we can't have an interview in which we're able to ask the questions we want to ask, then there's no point in doing it.

to move as much of the spotlight away from his client as possible.

wouldn't be doing anything different if it were a criminal case.

We have to get ball tough. We drill. We work on it in practice. You have to take it personal.

We want to take him up on that offer, so we are working with Mr. Condit's attorney in order to arrange dates, times, locations and so forth in order to make that a reality, ... I think it's time that once and for all, we find out where we are with that case.

We'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be, ... They have a right to protest, we respect their right to protest, we have every intention of allowing them to do that, as long as it doesn't interfere with the parade itself or the events that are associated with it.

We've said from the beginning we'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be,

signs of a struggle, other types of evidence, blood, skin or tissue -- things of that nature that could point to something happening that was unusual and that might all point toward foul play.

Obviously, we wished we found the body earlier, but we didn't, ... Critics can be critics, and I guess they've got something to be critical about.

Numbers aside, it's always nice to get a road win. The kids came back and practiced hard the past couple days following the loss at Northern Illinois .

I don't believe the congressman, like most of the people we're talking to now, has any reason really to try to withhold anything, so we're going to go into this with the attitude that we'll get full cooperation until we're proven wrong.

I don't think it was a lucky shot. It was a shot by a senior... who knew exactly what he was trying to do: make the shot.

He had a black mask over his face, ... Our officers were able to pull him from the crowd, and they searched his backpack, and he had four containers with liquid -- we believe flammable liquid.

His performance was tremendous. He played liked he was one of the better players in the conference, and unfortunately, we didn't have anyone that could slow him down.

He's playing within our team concept. His floor game is what got us the lead.

He's playing extremely well. His confidence has come full circle. It does help our team offense now that we have another scorer.

just to clear up a few issues. There was some information that we still needed. We're going to now evaluate all that.

John is our biggest weapon, but he's a much better player than he demonstrated tonight.

It came down to our guys who are supposed to make plays down the stretch. That's what it comes down to. Their players, who are their best players, made plays down the stretch.

It certainly is getting to a point now where it's kind of baffling because we don't have any information one way or another, so we can't really narrowly focus,

It is a possibility that she was killed elsewhere, but our feeling is that her body's been in Rock Creek Park for a long period of time,

Over the course of just three days, that operation removed nearly 3,000 illegal guns from the streets of our nation's capital, ... Never again will those weapons be available for settling an argument.

Suffice it to say it took a few interviews, but we did get the information we felt was important at the time,

I was very displeased with the defensive effort at the start of the game.

John ran a 5:35 mile, and for a guy that size he has done a tremendous job of leading by example during our conditioning period, ... He's a guy who is leading by example.

That's the one thing we've been doing very well. Two things stand out: turnovers (18, leading to 20 points) and not making free throws.

Most likely at this point, I think she either met with foul play or she left on her own accord, ... I think the odds of her taking her own life diminish as time goes on, because ... you can't kill yourself, then bury yourself.

We haven't seen that often. We've been in so many nail-biters. Just to come in and hold them to 50 points, I really feel good.

Those guys deserved the minutes. They did the little things?our other guys didn't do a great job of defending. You have to make teams work for what they get.

We don't have a crime that we know of yet, so we're not talking about a suspect in any case, ... However, an offer has been made, and it would be irresponsible on our part not to take advantage of it.

We have a lot of information we still have to go through, but we're no closer to answering that question of what happened to Chandra Levy,

We could light this town up if we had to, but we don't intend to do that,

We don't have specific timelines. But hopefully we'll be able to do everything we need to do very, very quickly and again get these samples analyzed, take a look and review the lie detector results and move on,

We don't have a zero-tolerance policy, but we do have a policy where we will not allow people to operate motor vehicles if they're impaired, ... And that's the judgment of the officer at the scene. I personally support the officer's judgment. He's experienced. He made a call. If someone wants to challenge it, that's why we have courts in this country.

We don't have anything to date to show us that it's anything other than that, ... That's the one thing we know we have is a missing person. We're continuing to interview people. We're following leads. Leads are still coming in, but most of them are not leading us anywhere.

We don't have any suspects in this case, ... We still don't have any evidence of a crime.

We still don't have a hard lead, ... We still don't have anything that causes us now to focus our investigation on one of the main possibilities that are still open to us, so right now we're still wondering what happened to Chandra Levy.

Those are just not winning plays, and you've got to make those plays down the stretch.

We don't know if it's gang-related. I know that is a conclusion that a lot of folks want to jump to because you got two groups of young people, ... But, not all young people are members of gang.

When you are a stage in your program that we are at, winning on the road late in the season is huge. We have already won more road games this year than we did last year, so this was really big for us to come in here and get a win.

What we're trying to do is monitor the group as best we can, ... We had a group that was getting pretty rowdy and we needed to check it a little bit.

Who would have thought that 80 percent of New Orleans would be underwater?

We can't always fight uphill. Sooner or later... the ball is going to fall our way.

We thought the zone was a way to pack it in and neutralize them, see if they would take aim and miss a couple.

We have to do a better job defending, man. I'm disappointed with some of the older guys, but I'm not going to name names.

Brian Snider is a veteran player and he has been here before. Brian hit a couple of big shots against us to get them going. Hopefully, when my team gets older we'll be able to do the same thing. We lost because the better team won. Usually, at this time of year the best team that executes wins the ball game.

At this point, we don't have any intelligence information that tells us anything is going to take place, but obviously in today's environment we have to be very concerned about that,

Early in the season, we had leads and they dwindled away. For us to be able to go on the road and do it is another leap in our program's effort to get back to respectability.

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Sometimes, when we need stops, somebody has to step up.

people don't have a right just to chain themselves together.

Young teams have to learn how to fight through that.

This is probably the No. 1 case that we've had during my time here, and I've been policing for 30-some-odd years, ... It's on the O.J. Simpson-JonBenet scale, I would think.

This could change to a criminal investigation, and if that's the case then we have to be very careful about some of the information that we have that gets into the public domain,

They're ultra-quick, they're very aggressive?they led the league in steals?so that means you have to punch them in the mouth before they can punch you.

They got off to a good start. But, we didn't panic and we stayed the course.

there was no indication that it was anyone other than her.

This is the most I've ever got beaten in my life. So this is a new experience for me also.

They play with a lot of confidence and a certain swagger. Give them all of the accolades. They're probably the most talented team we've faced all season, but I'm not ready to anoint them.

Allowing the protesters to protest to voice their opinion, I think is very important. But I also think it's very important the IMF and World Bank be able to hold their meeting.

It was a veteran team making a veteran play. We were hoping for some things to happen. They were confident and made things happen.

It is unacceptable that these items were not located ... I have directed that this matter be thoroughly reviewed to determine why these items were not originally found.

It just makes it more difficult, ... It makes it more complicated. It just hampers your ability to investigate.

After this event, FEMA is going to be doing a lot of soul-searching,

(Snider) hit a couple of big shots, probably the 3's are what got him going more than anything. You know, that's what your seniors are supposed to do, and hopefully, when my young kids are seniors, they'll make those types of plays.

I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth over what was said, what wasn't said.

I'm not getting into the details of what we know, when we first found out and all that sort of thing. That would be inappropriate,

I'll tell you what, I like where we're sitting as opposed to where Western is sitting (in the tournament standings). I don't know if they want to necessarily see us come in on Monday. I think it's going to be an absolute, old fashion battle.

But it is a good investigative tool and one we won't hesitate to use.

If he's not the best freshman in the conference, I want to know who is. He's been solid now for six games in a row.

He's one of several people that knew Chandra Levy very, very well, ... We're looking now to see who we need to re-interview in light of having discovered the body. He may very well be among those. We haven't made a final determination yet.

how much we're praying for all of them to get through this.

He already paid his pittance to us long ago.

You can't give a team of that caliber that type of cushion and then try to fight back. They weren't working hard enough to score buckets.

The key for us is to try and get things implemented that are going to be long-lasting, and the focus is on fundamentals.

These are my guys. If you didn't know that this was my staff's first year here you wouldn't be able to tell. These guys have done everything we've asked so far.

These groups have been in conflict for a good part of the afternoon, going at one another. But it wasn't until they were put out of the zoo and they were standing on Connecticut Avenue, one group on the west side of the street, one on the east side, that they started throwing bottles back and forth, and then someone pulled a gun and then began firing at the crowd,

The last time I checked, I don't work for the FBI,