This is not just an intellectual exercise. The people who live and work here have an emotional commitment to Santa Monica, and can deliver a good service if they truly believe in it.

Being a city of people with bold innovations, we want to figure out what we can do to make the beach experience distinctive and unique.

We want to match the quality of service with the quality of the destination. If people are going to pay a higher-than-average room rate, they should expect a higher level of service experience from the destination as well as the hotel.

I would exercise constantly. I'd get up at 3:30 in the morning and exercise before school. I'd work out after school, and again before bed.

I'd like to make this marriage work, and we ought to make this joint commitment not to bail out, but I'm not going to sit around here having time pass, increasing my exposure or wasting my greatest assets – my years to live – if this isn't going to happen or if my giving you time to rehabilitate isn't going to work. We're going to work on this, but during this period, I'm not going to increase my exposure financially and if this blows up, I'm going to put into terms what will happen.

Sprint Nextel shares with Nextel Partners a commitment of excellence to our customers, employees and shareholders. As we work through the regulatory approval processes, we intend to focus on plans for efficiently integrating Partners' business into our operations in a way that is seamless for customers and employees.