Susan Tolchin Quotations

We are very pleased that the money has been placed back in the budget and we can continue to patrol the parkways with no expense to our taxpayers.

We went into the prescription business because we wanted to help people lower the cost of their prescription drugs. There is no cost to the taxpayer or the county. People can save a lot of money.

It's no secret that there's gang-related activity in Westchester communities. We want to do everything we can to give school officials, municipal officials, social-service agencies and all stakeholders as much information as we have in order to prevent kids from joining gangs, to help kids leave gangs.

Certainly, there's a valid reason to investigate this, not only because of the dollar implications that have been involved in overruns, et cetera, but also in possible legal implications.

Andy wants everybody in the same room. These are the decision makers. They need to know what's going on, to get the right information from the people who have it.

The passion level was really high coming from the people in the room he commented on the passion. So if you take this as a fact-finding mission ... he heard us. That can only be good.

We can't wait to get it going. It gives us things we need to make sure we can alert the public in a variety of ways with cell phones, text messaging, and tying into our current outbound calling system.

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

We are not commenting any further on this. This has nothing to do with the county.

When this whole controversy over the day laborers broke, the county executive was very troubled by it. He is concerned that there's a feeling of intolerance and he feels that Westchester County is better than that. Now the mayor has to decide if he wants to end the controversy and work with us.