Carolyn King Quotations

We didn't want anyone to stay out of a sense of duty, that's for sure. The most important thing in a situation like this is people's lives. Everything else is secondary.

When we share, everybody gets strengthened. We're a family.

Of course, in SoCal, nothing like this is ever preserved!

I think that in a matter of a month we will be running at full speed,

We couldn't get furniture delivery until Saturday, so now no one has a place to work, ... I think that, by Wednesday, we're going to have everybody seated at a desk with a phone and ready to roll.

We are handling only extreme emergencies. If you need a stay of execution, we'll do that.

We waited too long to leave. We learned that you have to make the decision to leave 72 hours before landfall. Otherwise, you can't get out.

We can't return to the building anytime soon. So we have to have an alternative site. The question is, where?

There's a natural inclination on the part of our employees to want to be near New Orleans. And so that's what we're trying to look at. We're looking at Houston, and we're looking at several locations.

I have thought in past years about running for City Council, but I always let the deadline pass me by. This time, I made sure it didn't.