John Church Quotations

When you buy electricity from out of state ... you are essentially taking dollars out of your pocket and sending it to another state.

If we hadn't had construction doing what it was doing, things would have been slower, much slower, Maybe half of that 3.8 percent.

He is an outsider, he is not from the company, he is not from here. That is it on the surface, and now this (sale) just adds to it.

What we found is that sea levels are rising and increasing with time.

Land costs are getting high, but are still cheap compared to California, or even Sun Valley, where an acre of land can cost $1 million. But it's still pushing housing prices up.

We do have to reduce our emissions but we also have to recognize climate change is happening, and we have to adapt as well.

We're going into the summer and that is a driving season.

Although such things may seem like small issues, they are a good reminder that everyone shares the watershed we live in, and what one person does can impact everyone downstream.

There's a strong correlation between a low unemployment rate and inflation. A business' increased costs are simply passed on to the consumer.

It means there will be increased flooding of low-lying areas when there are storm surges. It means increased coastal erosion on sandy beaches. We're going to see increased flooding on island nations.

It just hasn't caught up to us yet.

That's pretty good. It wasn't that long ago that about 10 counties had double-digit unemployment.

It was not a good year for the average consumer, what with energy costs going up the way they did. The only way to make it up would be to work more jobs, or have more people in the household working.

I know the employment numbers will be stronger, which will mean the gross state product will be higher.

In the past, we've attracted people (to Boise) from five surrounding counties, because more work entices people into a longer commute.

You can pile all the evidence you want on the premier about whether or not private delivery of health care is a good way to go. His ideology and his personal values may in fact be blinding him to any evidence that might be provided to the contrary.