Jack Ellis Quotations

We spent some money that could have been better utilized elsewhere,

We're going to fight it tooth and nail, ... We hope the whole community will come out and rally against it.

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

If it's the current airline, fine, ... If it's a new airline, OK.

What do they do afterward? ... Do they go out and beg with a tin can? Only the federal government can do this work.

I will never sign the deed transfer on that property,

We have our Islam mosques and Jewish synagogues involved, too. Everyone of faith can take part and is needed,

will not be able to support the event financially.

We were all kind of flying in the dark as to the FTA regulations and exactly what was needed,

We want to know who they are. We want them to know who we are and who our community is,

We are with you 100 percent, whether you stay a couple of weeks or whether you die here,

We're putting governmental (agencies) in there now because that's where the money is -- we're putting in agencies that pay rent, and those are agencies that we didn't have any place to put,

Either we're going to do this downtown connector or we're not,

Some people may not take the roommate contracts seriously.

The way things are there leave a lot a to be desired, ... But it's clean and it's safe.

It's a higher rate than any municipality that they insure, ... Our insurance providers tell us that if we want to cut the cost of our insurance, we have got to first of all eliminate diabetes.

I want to commend council for being responsible,

I want them to vote and I might even recruit one to run for office,

The commitment I made to the council ... is that the building will never be a strain on the general public -- the building will always be self-sufficient. Thus far it has been self-sufficient.