Richard Turner Quotations

We're just waiting for the new ferry terminal to open before we get started, ... We hope to have it done before the fifth anniversary of 9/11 next September. Now, we have a site and a target date.

Madonna is a pretty good rider and very fit and agile. Being thrown off is just one of the risks of riding.

If the government did more to promote the castle it would be good for business.

It goes back to the district court, where he has to decide whether to grant an injunction. Is there a single reason that he wouldn't? It's extremely rare that you don't.

You always remain in control of that personal identity information. You get to manage it. You get to determine to whom you're willing to submit that identity information to and to whom you're not willing to submit that personal information to.

We'll meet with the various groups to make sure that all sensitivity of the memorial is taken into consideration,

We've been discussing this for quite a while, ... We were looking for the appropriate site and appropriate tribute, and we wanted to have it someplace along the waterfront. We wanted it there, not only as a tribute to the victims, but also in honor of all the rescue groups who aided more than 70,000 people who used the ferry as way of a safe exit from New York after the attacks. Those 70,000 people came through Weehawken that day and were aided by volunteers, police, fire, EMS workers. They received medical treatment in our triage centers. Some just needed to get cleaned up and receive water. We distributed water by the thousands that day.

There's going to be a very large park there, much bigger than just the waterfront walkway, ... The garden is already there, so that helps. It was the site of the evacuation center and it has a perfect view of downtown Manhattan from that site. It will honor not those who died and those who worked there, but everyone who came off that ferry that day. It's a beautiful site for a lasting memorial.

the bad advice she had received from this office.

Once the ferry terminal is moved (about 1,000 yards to the north, where construction is rapidly moving toward completion by early 2006), no one will ever remember that it was a rescue site. That's why we wanted to make sure it was put there.

Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.