John North Quotations

Wait until these laws are abused or misused and then the people of Australia will turn on them for bringing in, in peace-time, laws that allow Australians to be locked up without charge.

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

I went to a game and saw right away that this was where I was supposed to be,

We must keep a sense of proportion in our criminal justice system,

We can't lock everybody up forever or we will just turn back to the sort of society that founded Australia in the first place, with transportation and ridiculous sentences for minor crimes.

When Ruddock starts slapping anklets on these people, their own lawyers would immediately mount challenges,

We see such potential, such possibilities. That's where our energies are, ... If Hannibal had this talent here in the 20s, 30s and 40s, it can have it again.

The bottom line is we're going to remain in town. We realized many, many people in this community loved what we had tried to do.

It's very small. They're just starting to report a few other than in the Willamette.

In our constitutional system the separation of powers is paramount -- the judiciary must remain independent of the executive. Federal courts can only be asked to exercise judicial functions.

In that mindset, it never occurred us it would not be a success, ... The historic value is so great, and also our mission was so clear, we never thought about it not working. We just assumed people would embrace us.

The higher than expected catch rates combined with a run size that appears to be about 20 percent smaller than forecast have brought us to this point.

The effort was low and spread out and a lot of them didn't fish that long with so few fish around.

The catch rate is proportional to the run size.