Robert Strauss Quotations

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

I think that we just have to educate people, and it's amazing to me that every patient that I see that has had this screening test ... has said, 'Gee, if I just would have realized how easy it is, I would have done it years ago,'

What we've been subjected to is the assessment law of the month, and it really is troubling.

What we saw Tuesday night is nothing to be proud of -- it was embarrassing. Nobody talked about the numbers, ... County council was being asked to vote on something they didn't understand the words about, let alone the empirical effects.

What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen -- they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding,

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.

It's not like putting up a new office building, ... It's not a clear public purpose.

It looks like Groundhog Day again, the movie,

consultation with various members of the delegation and the White House.

At the other end of this, who's going to be taking as serious any commitments that are made? The reality is nobody is going to sign up for anything that will serve the public's interest until afterwards.

This hybrid notion of using the 2002 numbers -- we're going to use appeals and were going to fuss around in between the next reassessment, which we don't know when its going to be -- I just think is not going to withstand judicial scrutiny.