Roy Quotations | Page 2

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

He'll want to make a few (moves), right away. Larry will want to bring in guys he's comfortable with. He's going to want to have a say in personnel. That's the way Larry is. He'll go in and ask to have guys traded. But Donnie Walsh used to tell him, 'We're not going to do what you want. I will not destroy this team.'

We're going to drive the people off the land who have been living on it and working it for generations. It's going to destroy our No. 1 industry: tourism.

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

Whenever royalty visits, I think it is something that really excites people, gets them interested in heritage and culture.

When we drafted Jeff Francoeur, (scouting director) Roy Clark said, 'This guy's going to be a star,'

When we got this inquiry from Mr. Silverberg, we called London and we talked to the Royal Mail. We tracked it all the way to their incoming distribution site. It was accepted by the Royal Mail, and it's from there that the trail went cold.

We would take almost any reasonable action before reaching a point of having to make a decision about destroying an American plane over American air space.

What Hurricane Katrina destroyed in hours will take years to rebuild, ... The public expects the government to be careful with taxpayer dollars and put them to use in a smart and practical manner.

What he had done with these photos was place them in water in a plastic bag with what he says was an attempt to destroy them.