I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

We were planning a big celebration over at the Hyatt (Regency in Monterey) and I thought what a nice way to celebrate it.

We need this planning grant so we can do the research we need to do to prepare a thorough application for permits we need to build this new facility. The grant will help us develop our plans to the point where we can answer the community's questions.