25 Quotes by Bill Riley

It's exciting to go to this track in more of its original configuration. The last corner, coming out of the straightaway, is really challenging. It is a big 180 degree turn and really fast.

It was fun, I had heard that she had gotten the job and I hadn't seen her in a couple years, so I was looking forward to saying hi to her. I'm very happy for her, I hope that she enjoys it. It's tough taking over a team in midstream but I know that she will do a great job.

It was a tricky little mess to untangle this morning.

It's not the finish I wanted but at least it's a good finish. It's a shame we got the penalty at the end. It's hard to have these cars race this close and not touch each other. Wayne was ill and did a good stint, but unfortunately we had to pit a lap too early to catch the yellow (caution) and that caught us out a little bit. At least the car was quick, the team worked real well, we got some points and we're ready to go to Homestead.

It looks to me like there's going to be a paradigm shift in how we fuel our vehicles here in the United States, and it's exciting to work with these people from these various agencies from the small communities and look at the potential that it offers. These are all things that are within our grasp and today are cost-effective.

Being able to rebuild the car was huge. It was a lot of work -- piece by piece, doing so many little, tiny minor things -- but we should have a real good car at Phoenix and we won last year so we're really excited about coming back.

The Columbia Basin is not an island; we're part of a much larger economy, and our economy is in trouble on a national basis and a state basis. That's the largest trade deficit in history, and 30 percent of that is from Chinese goods coming into the United States.