James Mitchell Quotations

If we had waited for the government to get us out of there, we would have died. It took the citizens there to get us help.

I believe we are in Wisconsin for good.

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations. People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations, ... People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

I think that's going to be probably one of the major stumbling blocks. Some of the details we're going to have to work out.

I say, 'Good gracious.' Who moved out? (It's) like he took 12 houses and just ran everything back here.

Overall, it doesn't change the picture at all, ... There are still widespread signs of easing price pressures?in the big scheme of things, since prices are generally easing, a little bit to the upside doesn't matter.

Location, location, location. We moved to Main Street.

That was something in the past we just took for granted, that everybody had a way off the island. I think (Katrina) has opened up our eyes definitely and given us a different perspective on dealing with the evacuation.

We think the senior class will be excited about having an accomplished high-profile speaker who will be able to draw on his extensive life experiences to deliver a great commencement speech.

You have to be careful what ID-IQs are used for, what gets tucked into them.

What they do is a little part of all of us.

We certainly need to think about it. We don't have an exit strategy and we ought to have a plan to get out of there.

The United States can deploy military people quite easily. But when they need to deploy civilians, it's very difficult and complicated, and there is no system to do it.

The taxpayers should be happy. The return on investment is huge.

This is the first case and there will be more.

It's late in the session, and there's only so much time.

It was a few minute things I wanted to get off my record.

I know I have much still to learn.

The important thing is to get oversight in there fast, and make it highly visible.