Ron Walker Quotations

We know what a difficult decision it must have been for Ian but we agree his health must come first.

We have it in the contract that we are the first race, so we are not worried about that.

She is obviously distraught and is at an undisclosed location.

One mistake was waiting too long to evacuate. There were serious problems.

I am sure Queen Elizabeth II will be seated in comfort for the Opening Ceremony at the MCG.

I anticipated we'd have had it done in November. But it will be fairly soon. Our goal is to have full water service, with Clay County Regional Water by the summer months.

If it happens again, God forbid, maybe we can do a better job.

There is always those people who are lured by huge purses and we don't blame them.

I think we're getting very visible. You can absolutely saturate people and overdose them on ... advertising.

Our county government cannot continue to operate with the expenses of Ford Park. We are suffering in our governmental services.

That 1 cent translates to $1.4 million and that wouldn't even cover the $1.5 million in operations, much less the debt service.

We need a change of direction. We need a change of course. We need to change the morale of this county and together we can get that done.

We owe it to the people to get an accurate counting of what they thought. ...What I want is the people satisfied because if the people aren't satisfied, it's a bummer.

This will be a once in a lifetime chance for all Australians to witness one of the greatest athletes of our generation.

You wouldn't want tigers to get loose on the athletes, would you? The mind boggles at the thought.

For every dollar abated, the tax is shifted to someone else.

It's great to have that noise echoing around the Park again.

I want to tell you something, we're going to get over Hurricane Rita, and it's not going to be that long. But, it's going to be a long time before we get over Ford Park.

As you will notice if you haven't already thrown the piece away, it is short. When you write short, you make fewer mistakes. Hence, this piece is darn near perfect.

I'm disappointed Helen Clark didn't see fit to travel three hours to come over here.

But I am encouraged that the Government has finally released a discussion paper for the industry to respond to. This Government is one of the most reforming governments in history but the media industry is one of the last industries to face up to the 21st century technology now available.

The games are not about one person. It's about thousands of athletes coming together to compete for their country.