He was a very effective teacher. He taught an office procedures course that relied on the teacher to make interesting what could otherwise have been pretty dreary.

The General Assembly must send a strong message to municipalities that tearing down neighborhoods to replace them with office buildings or a big box retailer must stop.

We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.

It was almost the first thing they said to me in the A's front office when I walked in. They said, 'The Yankees aren't bad at what they do. Texas is bad at what they do,' ... 'The Mets aren't so great at spending money. But if the Yankees were great, we'd go do something else for a living.'

When you're in the prosecuting attorney's office you're kind of a specialist. The civil responsibilities were one of the greatest learning curves I had to take on when I got into office.

We now have a small office in the maintenance shop that has a desk and computer for the maintenance staff. We're also going to be putting up an awning on the building any day now, and new doors will be added later.