Robert Freeman Quotations

We're hoping the weather the rest of the week should help it melt.

She's going to be wearing this in other venues all over the world,

Bush's budget wants us to declare that we should keep channeling ever more of the nation's wealth to those who are already the most wealthy, and to fund it by taking money from education, the poor, the disabled and from the impoverished elderly. That is the naked meaning of his never-ending tax cuts for the wealthy and his program cuts for the weak.

Here we're talking about a record that must be prepared, it's unquestionably public and it's relatively easy to find. Four weeks would not represent a reasonable time. A delay of that nature is a failure to comply with the law.

I think it's taken up every year, sometimes more forcefully than others, but it doesn't seem to me that there's a real likelihood that would permanently guarantee the presence of cameras in the courtroom. Certainly, as time goes by, New York is going to become more and more of an aberration.

I think cooler heads prevailed in New York more than in other states. It seems there has been more thoughtfulness in New York for freedom of information than in the past.

Often, individuals make requests important only to them. If an agency wants to stonewall, the likelihood of being challenged in court is practically nil. Most people don't have the resources or the time to challenge an agency's denial in court.

The most we can do right now is just to push it back to the curb and hopefully the residents will stay off the street.

An uninformed public can do no good. Only with information can we contribute and improve the way we live. Ignorance really is not bliss. The more secrecy we have within our government, the less accountability.

This (document) is not obscure, nor should it be difficult to find.

You can think of a lot of ways that would be wholly inappropriate, since they play in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London and Tokyo and so on. I didn't want to ask them to wear boots onstage.

If we went to trial and the jury believed the plaintiff, I am sure the award would be in seven figures. I don't think the jury would believe that, but you never know what a jury is going to do.

I recognize that it may be difficult and perhaps cumbersome during the course of a meeting to enter into executive session, return to an open meeting and later enter into executive session again, should the need arise. However, those kinds of actions by the Council may be fully appropriate and necessary to comply with the Open Meetings Law.

Hey, life goes on. It's another day in the winter.

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.

I can't tell you they can't ask the question. But who you are and why you want it makes no difference (under state law). You don't have to answer the question.