27 Quotes by Robert Nelson

We're a watchdog group that has become the eyes and ears of where the tax money is going in Walton County. We spend a lot of time, through volunteer efforts, to analyze budgets, analyze expenditures and try to look at different government programs to see if there's an actual justification of benefit back to the taxpayer.

We did not feel it rose to the level of a black box.

(Moss) was going really slow. Apparently, he didn't want to hurt her. I think he was just trying to frighten her into moving.

If we ever have a pandemic of avian flu, which is a debatable point, people want to know that they have a drug that will not cause more (harm) than the flu itself. There is no evidence that this will.

I believe we're at a critical stage in terms of our need to increase capacity for the long term.

ITC going public is fairly significant and I think it could be a harbinger of things to come in the industry.

I think the direction this amendment has taken has been foreshadowed in the past few years. Developers file at the last minute just to see if they can buy more time, but single-asset cases aren't favored, and they haven't been favored for some time. Judges have seen enough of these cases that they no longer buy pie-in-the-sky projections from developers. The changes reflect what many judges I was dealing with were imposing anyway.

Steinbeck wrote about the Depression and how hard people's lives were, but he also makes so much comment about itinerant farm workers and race relations. He does a wonderful job illuminating character. He records the best and worst of human behavior. If you're looking for a window back to this time, this is it.

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.