Doug Brooks Quotations

We are honored to play host to such an esteemed group of musicians. We look forward to their return to Vail and to their arrival at the Vail Cascade next summer. Our July guests are in for a very special treat.

This program is the perfect vehicle for the restaurant industry to contribute in a meaningful way to the massive relief efforts undertaken by the American Red Cross. We urge everyone to make eating at a participating restaurant for lunch or dinner on Oct. 5 part of their schedule.

Over the last two years, Becky has created a heightened awareness of consumer preferences across our enterprise. Through these efforts, she has enhanced our brands' ability to continually innovate with new products and services that fulfill our customers' desire for a great dining experience.

We can't go on with business as usual at Magic Waters, ... Looking at the numbers and statistics, we can't go on as we have.

We are committed to being the dominant, global casual dining portfolio restaurant company. Our worldwide development strategy, strong operations performance and portfolio of powerful brands will enable us to grow earnings each year by 15 percent and pay a sustainable dividend to our shareholders, ... We are excited to share our strategic plan, which will support the achievement of our long-term vision, during today's investor conference.

We also give ourselves room if the audience isn't quite to our forecast. Until all the details come in, we won't know with certainty, but at this point it looks like we'll make our audience commitments.

Primetime has not been as strong as we'd hoped.

You see far fewer accidents and accidental shootings of civilians with the private security than you do with the regular military,

If you're not going to use private sector, who are you going to use? The only countries that do provide peace-keeping services are among the poorest countries in the world, so it's no small wonder that UN peacekeeping fails.

If you sit still for a few minutes, the insurgents will have time to figure out where you are, that you are a Westerner, and take you out. A lot of the casualties are from situations like that.