Kevin Yoder Quotations

Coleman was a great addition to the IMCA family of sponsors last season and will continue in that role this year. They were very active in attending IMCA events last year and I hope our members create an opportunity to talk with them throughout the 2006 season.

This is huge for bragging rights because everybody says that we don't play teams and 1A isn't anything big. It just kind of puts us on the map a little bit more.

It kind of takes the gas out of your legs. You just kind of get down.

We had the top of the order coming up and that's what I wanted to make sure we could get to. Those guys are all three and four year letter men for us. We get our lead off guy up and then our two-hole guy up and I felt pretty good about our chances with the middle of the order coming up.

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.

I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable.

There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.