Paul Brewbaker Quotations

We should always be so lucky to have extra revenue, but it's not always going to be the case that it'll be true.

We should all be so lucky to have something come in higher than you thought.

I'm not really surprised about the ranking. How good is it here? It's so good that we have a higher inflation rate than the nation.

If we have it and everybody else has it, that's huge. If we have it and nobody else has it, that's also going to be huge.

I always say that Hawaii is the western edge of Orange County.

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

In some places, like Iowa or Texas, where there are no such things as building permits, the path is smoother, with a steady rate of return of 4 percent each year. In other places, it comes in fits and starts, and the distinction between the smooth path and the stair step has to do with the extent of geographic and regulatory scarcity.

What this list says is that there are a lot of great places to move to from Hawaii.

I don't remember anybody saying how much money we've just spent to upgrade the physical facilities at our schools, which would be part of that complex of issues.

The stars are aligned right now for Japanese investors.