John Crawford Quotations

I am so delighted. It's hard to talk about without choking up. We thought were in risk of losing our pristine bay.

I make the cheer-cisions and Ill deal with the cheer-onsequences.

I feel that this lady can do the job. She has the backing of the auditor's office,

If we accept this extension, this township is still as far behind the ball as we ever were,

When they heard I was writing a book, they all wanted to know if I was writing a 'super liberal' book. The ones I've talked to so far said they liked what I wrote.

The Americans act like kids, basically. And the Iraqi people thought of us as big children.

I was off spinning these raunchy fiction stories with dialogue, and that's not really what my professor wanted. About halfway through the semester, I caught on to what she wanted. I had to play catch-up just to get a C. I was happy to get that C.

You'll remember a formula but you can't remember how to use it,

We have to have that finished by November of this year, in preparation for the 2007 election. We have already been working on that, but that's something that will occupy several meetings as we go through the year.

We were hesitant about it at first. But you get to see some well-rounded, educated guys who are doing this to raise money for a charity at the same time.

We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, it was overpriced fuel trucked in by Halliburton from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,

We're still unraveling this whole mess, ... The special audit is identifying who is owed what amounts of money, how much was taken from the commission, the clerk's office, the state and in what amounts. It's a complex puzzle.

Um, I'm doing an interview with Wisconsin Radio in a few minutes, and then I'm supposed to fly to Washington to do 'Hardball,' but I'm waiting to see what happens with the hurricane (Katrina). My life is really kind of surreal right now.

There was a tragedy that occurred in the city tonight, and now we have to get to the bottom of it.

There's also the change in gender roles, that men are more comfortable with telling how they feel and saying 'Oh, I was scared. This was terrible,' whereas 50 or 100 years ago you would never have got that,

It was a unique experience. It was cool hanging out with them and getting to know them better.

It's like being at a party and going into the bathroom for 15 months.. When you come back everything has changed. What happened to the party? All the people that were there at the party have moved on. They're not having the same conversations as they did when you left. Everything has changed.

I like to use a football analogy. A sports reporter can write in depth and give you a good idea of the game, but you really don't get it until you play it.

In the meantime, we have added yet another employee to the payroll.

He said it would be just like Indiana Jones. He talked me into it. You'll do anything to break the boredom.

He (Smith) was written up under the dangerous animal code. The humane society didn't take any animals ... they decided they were legally in the kennel.

These are five wonderful boys, and what they did was an awesome, awesome thing. I hope they can do it again next year, and that will be enough for me.

The laws are in place, the men understand all the laws, but freak accidents happen.