Sen Hawkins Quotations

What we lack in membership we make up in charm.

Most of us live in areas that would make excellent distribution centers. We need to push this through all the way.

Hopefully, we can put something in that's long term so they don't have to keep coming back. It just needs to be done and this is the year to do it.

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

What we are doing is managing people's business. This has nothing to do with clean air. The marketplace has already taken care of that.

U.S. 58 is certainly a priority for us.

People take you out to dinner. It's just a normal practice down here, but I have made it a point to avoid doing such a thing.

It's just a question of making sure we don't miss out on opportunities that would affect our part of the state.

It's a vital part of economic stability that can help areas in the middle of an economic upheaval.

Dogs by nature are not mean. Dogs - you have to make mean.

It takes money to do things. We have enough flexibility in the plan to do something about U.S. 58.

I don't think we ever envisioned transportation being solely a budgetary item.

The trick is to find a dependable source of revenue for transportation. If not, you get education competing with transportation and that just doesn't work.