Mike Ferguson Quotations

We got to the First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, which had been converted into a shelter for several dozen mothers and newborn infants, and I found the pastor and asked him to put me to work, ... He told me to collect the trash.

She was trying to ring him on his mobile and couldn't raise him. It's just really bad for my sister to be watching it on CNN, knowing that it was her husband on board,

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Kids are often more familiar with these products than parents, but they don't realize how harmful these products can be to hearing. It can lead to a lifelong ailment.

That's the result of a strong local economy. That's going to make Idaho attractive to a company that serves employers.

Why would the investment group want to move the corporate headquarters? If Kroger's bought the company, then we'd probably be looking at some major changes in the Treasure Valley.

We have to have fees. There's no doubt about it.

We were hearing that it was short-squeezes and index buying.

We probably don't need to acquire as much additional land as we're disposing of and we have a lot of other needs in terms of managing the lands we do have. It's nice to be able to find a revenue stream that will help meet some of the other discretionary programs.

We did a survey and pilots said they still used the lights. We just use the beacons as a visual navigation aid. When you can see the beacon, you know the weather through the mountains is clear.

There have been things moving pretty fast and furious here, and it's not high tech.

We are excited at the prospect of doubling everyone's donation. Now, when someone gives enough to purchase one bottle of water, we'll be able to make it two bottles of water. Instead of giving one hot meal, we'll be able to make it two hot meals. The scale of what we'll be able to do as a community is gigantic.

We could stand to lose a large amount of jobs.

Everything happens here. This is the central nervous system - very nervous.

This initiative aims to marry the best of drug industry practice with academic excellence in a university environment.

They go through the mountains, lighting the airways on lower-altitude routes. I'd like to see them keep going. They're a historic thing that's unique to Montana.

There were so many needs that needed to be met in an expedited fashion, ... The Red Cross was running a very good operation at the center, and the volunteers at the church were running a very organized operation there. But people were just running from one task to the next, trying to meet the need that was most critical at that moment.

It sends a signal that their situation is very serious in terms of being a competitive entity. Now the question is on the table: Are they going to be here a year from now, or not?

It's obviously an enormous company with incredibly deep pockets, so having a foothold in the Treasure Valley probably opens up an opportunity for additional economic activity that would be connected with Microsoft.

It's like a $21 million tax. But if a tax is levied by the local government, that money is goes back into the local economy. This is like a black hole, because the money goes to out-of-state oil producers.

Not in terms of the number of bags of coffee that move through the Cup of Excellence program, but through the impact of the auctions.

Their role on the world stage is huge.

If I had to boil it down, I'd say, it's probably bad news, but it's probably not as bad as one's initial gut reaction might indicate.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.