Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Pick

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

We want to see a strong public role in administering and managing the system. If the counties would wash their hands of it and say, 'We're turning it over,' we would have some large concerns.

We're looking forward to using the technology in November's election, and seeing that other counties have the opportunity to implement the same changes. It will eventually make the (vote) counting process go a lot easier.

One of the issues that we are wrestling with in our eight counties is crisis services, and ensuring that crisis services are available. We don't have that in place yet for adults or for kids, but we're working to try to put it in place.

No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many counties. However, deviations for some counties in 2005 are large and in the 'second tier' of yield loses. While genetic improvements may have reduced yield losses, large negative yield deviations are still possible.

Imagine the economic impact to the area, the state and the nation if no one in McLean and Tazewell counties could farm for two years. That's the kind of impact this flooding will have.

William Daley

Now that the legal hurdles have been cleared, the counting can resume in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties ... with these legal obstacles gone, we hope these counts can be finished in the next few days,

Kevin Brady

I feel even deeper for them, hurt even deeper for them, because these were the communities and counties that first opened their hearts and homes to Hurricane Katrina victims, ... And now they need our help.

What we went through is exactly the same as what you're facing. It's just more widespread there. Ivan hit three counties here and Katrina hit three states there.

Hopefully the state can work out a system soon that more equitably distributes education resources in our state, something desperately needed by low wealth counties like Bladen,

I accomplished everything I was going for. I mainly wanted to set the wins record and win counties and regions for the fourth time. This year was definitely one of my best.

I think we'll look at any high ground, ... It may not be where people wind up for the long haul. But, yes, I think we have to look to our neighboring county -- all of our neighboring counties -- that are inland and away from water.

He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituents about what is on their mind.

If something catastrophic happened, there are five counties we know can respond in hours,

If we don't do something this session, we don't have a program set up to deal with this long-term. And the counties are then going to be kind of just sitting there, saying, 'Boy, if this stuff starts ending up in the ditches, what do we do? Who's going to pay for that? So it ends up on property taxes.

We left insane three counties ago. This is goofball territory.

Fifteen counties were impacted, we're still in the response mode, and our objective now is to ensure the health and safety of our citizens.

When we look at county maps, we have four sightings in 12 counties in a short enough period of time that it is highly doubtful it was all one twister. We're getting damage reports from 28 different counties.

This survey is the only organized effort to truly determine the number of people who are homeless at any given point in time in the seven metro counties area.

Our primary interest is not the sports aspect. We're interested in seeing the region do this together as a cooperative mechanism. It will take three states and all the counties working together on this.

Our counties are growing. They're projecting about a 200,000-student growth for our district territory over the next decade, and we're preparing for that.

James Lee

Just because of printing schedules and corrections to ballots, every election there are a few counties that aren't ready to go.

We've been going out and helping other counties that don't have collections and need this service.

We can't logistically supply 19 counties with water and essential supplies.

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

we don't see the involvement we'd like from the counties (but) we need all the sectors.

We figure we can get the information from other counties and the Florida Association of Counties.

Amy Roberts

We have some families driving in from those counties to go to our programs. We want to get the programs into more counties, so families won't have to drive so far.

Sarah Taylor

We are trying to be extremely responsive to all the counties involved and thought we'd come right here to our home town and see how they're doing. They've had a couple of issues and today they've done really well while we're here.

Wind systems are so new we don't have anything in our zoning ordinance that addresses this type of electrical generation. There are counties in Illinois that have wind energy systems. Those are Bureau, Henry, Lee, McLean, and Mercer. McLean County, I believe, is going to be producing the largest wind energy system in the state, if not the Midwest. I think that's somewhere around a $300 million project.

Those counties that don't have them have a tremendous competitive disadvantage.

We are interested in reviewing any and all procedures that were undertaken to cross-reference these registration updates with pre-existing voter registration records in your county, and with the counties in which these voters previously resided.

I think I have a new perspective, a new image, an open mind looking for new solutions and using those that have been tried in other counties and cities.