7 Quotes by Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

I think on the face of it, it's a reasonable thing.

That was over the line. A blatant effort to promote the initiative.

We don't even have a computer capable of doing this, much less the personnel or a plan.

We still have an opportunity, but I believe the best opportunity has passed us by. I assume after what was said here this evening nobody is going to want to see something pasted together over the weekend and thrown on your desk on Monday. I certainly don't. Not any more. So now were talking about November.

When you go to Washington, you get no satisfaction. You come back and you put in an amount of money -- half of which is supposed to come from the feds -- what are we doing here?

However, the governor's proposing a lot more spending than we are. It's unclear how he plans to pay for it.