Michael Edwards Quotations

We're becoming more and more of a bedroom community than we already were.

We believe that this program is one of the best ways to create real added value for college students.

This tournament was an engaging and free way for college students to have fun and compete for an alternative way to pay for tuition.

We had a great conversation with the mayor.

Deeper debt relief, the Ottawa Treaty on land mines, the global movement for women's rights and protection of the environment -- none of these advances would have happened without NGO ideas and pressure.

This is when we came up with the current plan. The plan was to put up monitors, use the outside courts and let students use it. Everyone agreed and we've been going along and doing this since the spring.

It's almost always necessary to bring in an interpreter. What we discover frequently, even with people who are Spanish speaking, there are dialect issues, regional language issues.

Students were playing on the court with black sole shoes or shoes that marked the court. When you do damage to a court like that.it doesn't look good, and if they wear too much, then our athletes don't get to practice on fast courts,

They will be essentially an additional set of eyes and ears for the Pittsburgh police department.

International NGOs are there to level the playing field and build capacity. But I sense a real reluctance among some NGOs to do that.