We can have a park in North Carolina that's world class.

It's relatively simple. We have world class hardware, software and services -- it's rare for a company to have one of those, but we have all three. We can bring products to market quicker and we can move faster than competition because we control everything. It's a difficult equation for our competitors to match.

Sponsors are recognized as service industry leaders and will have the opportunity to drive new standards in world class service delivery.

When someone steps out and says something as audacious as, 'This is wrong' or 'This is right,' you open up yourself to all sorts of criticism and perhaps abuse by some.

My vision is the long vision, long-term vision for Raleigh, just like the people who laid this city out, just like the people who laid out the Research Triangle Park. Big vision.

Go into Central Park, you don't have people living in the park, you don't have business and industry, you don't have hospitals, it's peaceful, it's serene.