29 Quotes by Paul Johnston

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    He has juice in the building and construction office, ... It is a very cozy relationship with the construction office. Here I am, a small businessman, and they are doing the exact opposite to me. They make me jump through hoops, and they bust my chops. They give him the welcome mat, and they give me the get-out-of-town card.

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    What we are talking about is engineering solutions on a planetary scale and there are a huge number of uncertainties that need to be resolved before we go that way,

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    He did it in nine months, ... That is unheard of. For most people in Cape May, it takes three years to get past the planning board.

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    That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

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    We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

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    We have a study under way called the Lower Snake River Study. It is looking at three options. One is essentially to do nothing, the second is to significantly improve the dams to make them more fish friendly and the third is breaching the dams, ... These three options are still very much on the table.

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    Wal-Mart would have an impact on the whole character of communities, not just in Pajaro, but up and down the coast.

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