Tom Dempsey Quotations

The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

We were trying to find a balance that worked for everyone, which was tough to do because you have competing interests. I think everyone is equally unhappy with our result so I think we have a compromise. But I look to these parties to keep working together to make this work.

I feel they (the Porters) moved ahead faster than they otherwise would have to accommodate us.

We know that material costs have gone up, and I think we can get a 5,000-seat stadium and the 15 courts, ... some of the whistles and bells we looked at might not be there.

There are a number of things along those lines; some of them reduce operational costs, and others reduce capital costs. When you look at the whole thing, we just have to balance all of that out.

We truly deliver our basic training program largely through facilitated, small group instruction. We've been so successful with it, and it is so unique, that we have academies across the United States that come to us and try to see what we want. To see what we're doing now.

You really wish it had taken less time. You're glad it didn't take any more time. That's true of all permitting.

The new regulations may work or they may need to be adjusted in the future. We will just have to watch it and see what happens.

In some other areas we are actually fairly low tech and proud of it.