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That's what eventually pushed North Carolina over the divide. It gave Governor Easley an argument: Why should our people be paying for schools in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina?

I was really happy for Adrian, especially after the game he had at South Carolina (no points, two turnovers in two minutes. It allowed our starters to get a little bit of a breather.

I would like to play games closer than home. You can do more with the revenue if you don't spend it all on jet fuel. North Carolina State is close enough to where we can bus and our fans can go. It's a difference maker for you financially, and I think it's also a difference for your fans.

We can say we'd like to play in Detroit, or do something like spend three days in North Carolina and be able to do that. Success means we don't work a day job and can live.

We realize that our challenge is going to be a very difficult one with a good South Carolina team.

We pushed through (practice) pretty well today. Obviously it's hot and humid. It's going to be hot and humid in South Carolina as well. We have to be prepared and ready to give a great effort. That's what it's going to take to win the football game.

We went up there and felt like we were the best team in the field. It's a little disappointing, but I was proud of the effort. At least we scared North Carolina a little bit.

Without a doubt, property taxes have become a big issue in South Carolina over the past year, ... We certainly realize there's a problem, and we've got to get together and come to a solution to fix it.

Without a doubt North Carolina is still very aggressive on getting this industry. They are giving incentives such as free land, which we just don't have the capability of doing.

We're certainly disappointed that North Carolina has decided to seek legal action when it's clearly spelled out in the Master Settlement Agreement that disputes over payments, which this is, should be resolved through binding arbitration.

You always want two quarterbacks. Not saying there's anything wrong with Dan, but putting a rookie in against, say, Chicago, Green Bay or Carolina with Julius Peppers coming around the end, you're going to think about it.

We got Carolina already, and now we got Arizona. We can get on a roll now and take this the rest of the way.

We got a tip that he was staying with a relative in North Carolina and the police went and found him there. We're still working on the arrangements to bring him back.

We played them last year, so we had them on the schedule again, so these are some good ball clubs that we're playing. For us to get a win over Jacksonville and South Carolina State, those are big wins for us. What we need to do is go win on the road.

We came into the tournament with a horrible record. It was a winning season, but everybody doubted us. South Carolina is this, South Carolina is that, we're underdogs, we're not going to do nothing in the tournament. Hey we're showing people right now we've got a lot of heart and we're tough.

We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency ... Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package, and he was gone.

We've got some challenges, but I think we've got the capability to be a North Carolina School of Excellence, ... I don't know how long that will take, but it can be done.

We've got people here from Florida; we got people from South Carolina -- so it's a combination.

We're very proud to be here. It's so impressive, the response and the resources North Carolina has.

We have a lot of work to do. To play the way we did (last night), it's kinda depressing to know how much we wasted. If we'd played like this all year, we would have had a higher seed, and maybe we'd have played North Carolina in the finals. I take this year as a loss, as a failure. We gypped ourselves.

We'll play; we're happy to be in the tournament. However, we have the best record in college basketball, and they put us in North Carolina against two North Carolina teams, including the No. 1 seed overall? That's who we deserve to play?

We were short of players with experience, but at the same time, North Carolina was short of players. It was fair for both teams.

Today was another great opportunity to play against two very well coached teams. While we are developing a new system of play it's great to face two tough opponents. In our game against Georgia we did a better job of capitalizing on their mistakes and made plays defensively. Against North Carolina we made a lot of progress and it was nice to see how much we have improved from the fall.

You know they had all the hype coming into the (last) game and we felt they didn't deserve it. And I think again, (they have) a lot more hype than they should, and we're going to continue to play as hard as we can. I'm not downplaying the Carolina Panthers, but I'm up-playing us.

You know they had all the hype coming into the game and we felt they didn't deserve it. And I think again, they have a lot more hype than they should, and we're going to continue to play as hard as we can. I'm not downplaying the Carolina Panthers, but I'm up-playing us.

We got together this morning (Wednesday) at the hospital and Geanene Marshall, who has been very instrumental in getting the effort organized, suggested the Labor of Love idea. We started calling radio stations and other hospitals. We've tried to reach as many people as we could. We even faxed a copy to the North Carolina Nurses Association.

Well, guess what, the people of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Arizona and so forth get to decide who the front-runner is. So, it's nice talk but I'm not buying it.

We are one of the few places that have zoning in place. The city acted even before the legislature changed the law. I think council and staff saw the very likely possibility that tattooing would be allowed in South Carolina and wanted to be prepared and wanted to have something in place if and when it passed. There's no reason to wait until the last minute if the train is coming down the tracks.

The political thing to do would have been to sign this bill. Gov. Sanford always does what he believes to be in the best interest of all South Carolina regardless of any political fallout.

We are not finished, we don't believe, with these indictments. We're looking deeper into this particular Klan activity in South Carolina and we intend to get to the bottom of it.

We are having a pretty good year. The year started off great. It was a nice tournament win for us. Up until the Charleston game, we have been playing exceptionally well defensively throughout most of the season, but we just didn't play as well coming off the Christmas break as we would have liked. Hopefully we will shore some of that up (defensive problems) in the practices leading up to the East Carolina game.

We are gratified by the commitment of the North Carolina Board of Elections and its Executive Director, Gary Bartlett, to assure that military members and overseas voters have a meaningful opportunity to participate in the State's second primary elections. These measures provide an immediate solution while the Legislature adopts permanent procedures, as we trust they will promptly.

We are confident there are viable candidates in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Tom Morgan with the North Carolina Forest Service got me started back in 1964. He drew up my first plan. From there, he made a lot of suggestions for me to follow. Some I did, and some I did not. Then, Bill Holmes drew up my second plan. He was with Stone Container. Somewhere in this time, I joined the Weyerhaeuser Company Tree Farm Family Program, and they gave me technical advice that was good.

The question before the court has nothing to whether North Carolina should or should not have a lottery. The real question is whether political expediency trumps the state constitution.

Traditionally, around the world, tea is planted on hillsides. We're flat as a pancake, but we have sandy soil and ditches next to each field so the water drains away. The plants have been here in South Carolina for over 100 years and they're happy here.

We definitely wanted to play (Duke) again. With it being down here, it will be all Duke fans like it was today with all Carolina fans.

We want to make sure all assets are in place to evacuate so that no one in South Carolina dies because they weren't able to leave South Carolina and go inland to safety.

We want to be sure people in South Carolina are paying attention to the storm. We wouldn't want anyone in South Carolina to be caught off guard.

We've never had the experience of coming over here to a well-known team like North Carolina and beating them. It's a big lift for us. But we have to continue and don't think, 'It's a good win and now we're going stop.' We need to go forward.

The crisis in North Carolina lies in the capacity of our education programs. The No. 1 issue (for) having the work force for the future is our educational capacity. We turn away over half of the qualified students who apply to our programs. That's a problem.

Well, the first question you all are going to ask me is, how did we beat Minnesota and play Carolina so close? It's a tale of two teams. Ohio State just took it to us tonight and we didn't have an answer for them. A lot of it had to do with Ohio State .

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

We showed a lot of character and courage in the first half to match them point-for-point. But we just seemed to get tired, or I don't know what happened to us, but the doors blew off and Carolina exposed about everything that was wrong about our team in that stretch. That was all she wrote.

We knew we could get it done but we knew Carolina was going to make a run and give it everything they had.

We're trying to make it a positive, ... We're trying to tell them . . . it's a big game for us. This is not just another game. This is a big game because we're in the national spotlight. We appreciate this opportunity, and let's take advantage of it. Let's try to show some high school kids out there what Carolina football is all about.

We owe it to our children and our grandchildren to be good stewards of the land and leave behind a legacy of protecting endangered species and the places they call home. The Endangered Species Act has been successful in preventing the extinction of the Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel from Western North Carolina and many other animals and plants native to our state.

We view the decision as one of absolute vindication of what our clients have been saying for the last 13 years. And it's our sincere hope that the state will embrace the decision instead of continuing to litigate the matter and decide that all children of South Carolina need an education if they (are to) have a chance to be productive citizens.

We have been getting beat by a better ball club right now, and our guys are hurting. South Carolina is good, and they have been playing at their best right now.

When I was growing up, our whole family used to get together at Christmas, but we hadn't done that for some 30 years, ... Some of us got together in North Carolina last year, but this is the first time everyone's come up here. Everybody wants to see the game.

When North Carolina won the national championship last year, they had a lot of two-year players. You get them at the front end or back end. It just depends on how you want to look at it.

This will be a good barometer for us because this is by far the best team we've played and maybe will play. They are a football team that is not used to losing at all. For them to come off a tough loss against Carolina has really probably compounded the challenge that we have.

There is a challenge in North Carolina ... to some of the most rural areas trying to piece together a health care network,

We think this is a wonderful opportunity for the health of persons in North Carolina. We believe this new partnership between the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation and the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation will make a real difference in the lives of North Carolinians.

Women in North Carolina are choosing not to get the best care available,

You have to believe Duke and North Carolina and Maryland are all going to be teams in the postseason that are going to be very successful. They've proven themselves throughout the season.

We believe it's an incredibly important step toward creating an education system in South Carolina that recognizes the diversity in children and the diversity in learning styles that exist.

Trying to profit from a natural disaster or other crisis is wrong, and I hope that North Carolina businesses won't stoop to that level,

The question of the fire, the motivation, the discipline, it's all there. What you can't account for is what happened in Carolina last year.

This will be our second time to face South Carolina this season. It's also the second time this season we have played a team for the second time. They played with great emotion the last time we played each other. We got off to a good start early, but they were the better team that night. It was a six-point win for them, but they had us down 15 points at one point. This game will be a challenge for us. They have competitive kids and they totally out performed us. They beat us in every facet of the game. The challenge to our team is to take it one game to the next. Our last time against them is over. Our last home game is over.

This was a huge win, a huge win, ... This win means nothing though if we go down to Carolina and don't get a victory there.

To captivate the attention from everybody around the country has elevated South Carolina to put us in the position where we can continue to build and maintain this momentum. What he's done this year is build a foundation, an anchor.

We've got to aggressively and with passion, market, promote and sell South Carolina as a great place to do business. I don't think we are as aggressive as we once were, but we are moving in the right direction.

With Tennessee and North Carolina, I could easily put them No. 1. I thought North Carolina was very impressive in what they did to Connecticut. I've had them in my top three all year. And Tennessee, the way they've destroyed people has really been impressive, too.

With it being your first Duke-North Carolina game, you can't help but get nervous. You don't know what to expect because this game is the highest level of competition at the college basketball level. We will see if everyone is ready for that.

We need to come out on every pitch. Coastal Carolina is playing well this season, and they are always tough to play at home.

We need to clean up Congress. The people of Western North Carolina want to know that lobbyists and their special-interest money are no longer running the show in Washington.

We need to be ready to battle. We beat a good South Carolina team in under 2 hours. We can't expect to do that (today). We've got to be ready mentally to play longer if that's what it takes.

We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our biggest concern is needing to refuel along the way in North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia, without being able to find any gasoline.

When we lost one receiver on signing day to North Carolina State, we made the decision then that if we found the right kind of guy, we'd take one. He's definitely that kind of guy.

We've played Carolina great the three times we've played them.

We want to use the two days to get better. I know we made some advance in how we competed as a team against Tennessee. South Carolina has a pension for trapping and pressing and they are very athletic.

Fans like dynasties. Every coach in the conference wants it to change, but we've got to do something to change that. Yeah, there are teams capable of beating North Carolina and Duke, but they've got to go do it. Until somebody does it they deserve all the attention.

The governor puts all his efforts into misleading people about the problem instead of fixing it. Adding 100,000 jobs over three years is a drop in the bucket to what South Carolina needs to get back on the right track. South Carolina needs a new governor.

The governor looks forward to outlining his vision for South Carolina for this year tomorrow night. We'll leave the politics to the politicians.

We're in a battle with Buffalo for the top spot in the division and with Carolina for top spot in the conference. It's an exciting time of the year. With those teams not slipping up very much, we can't afford to either. We've been playing really solid since the break.

We've been lucky enough to win bonuses in South Carolina because we have been very good at making the program more accessible to people who are eligible for it.

Up until today, the North Carolina Research Campus has been an audacious idea on the part of David Murdock. Now it will lead to a more prosperous future.

The races for the N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals are the only statewide contests on the ballot this year, so it's key that voters across North Carolina have the facts on these candidates. The State Judicial Voter Guide does just that.

The opportunity to return to the Carolina region was one that interested me. My decision was based largely upon that opportunity for my family. The decision was increasingly difficult as my situation here at Drake ... has been extremely positive.

The other night we had lots of great scoring chances and we didn't complete them, but tonight the scoring chances were minimized so we'll be looking for ways to penetrate the defenses of Carolina and to get some of our players participating and getting some results on the Carolina side of center ice.

We have a different agenda. But she's a very dear friend of mine. I'm really proud of the year she's had. She's done a great job with her basketball team and with the North Carolina program.

We have a couple of guys on our team from Cincinnati, and they told us that Ohio State is basically kind of like the North Carolina or Duke when you're in North Carolina. We're kind of around that every day. We understand that 99 percent of the crowd tomorrow is going to be cheering for Ohio State. But we're OK with that thought, I think.

We had to go out with the mentality to execute and know our roles. I tried to come out and give energy tonight. We learned a lot from South Carolina and we have to move on.

We got a much needed win at South Carolina on Saturday. I like how our team is playing. We feel like we've played solid basketball over the last two or three weeks.

We want to go out and get better each game no matter if it's Duke, Temple, Georgia Tech, North Carolina or Virginia Tech. We just have to get the ball rolling so once we're into those bigger games, then we're just clicking.

We want to get what is in the best interest of North Carolina and for education.

We knew coming in that we had to take care of the ball, but we just didn't do that. North Carolina scores a lot of points off its defense.

We knew Carolina was too good of a team to not make a run at us in the second half.

You hear talk about the Carolina family. He became the newest member.

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With his passing, South Carolina has lost one of her most noble statesmen. He served his state and nation with great character and integrity.

With research completed, North Carolina is poised to lead the nation in sustainable hog production. It's time to turn research into reality and put the results and the benefits directly into the hands of farmers. The next step is to figure out how to make alternative technologies more affordable, and this won't happen in a lab or pilot project. There are a lot of motivated farmers who are stepping forward and want the new technologies as soon as possible. They should get them, and be rewarded for their pioneer spirit.

We tend to play better in a road-type atmosphere for some reason. I don't know. We knew that most of the North Carolina schools are within a good radius of this building, so we knew we weren't going to have a lot of fan support.

We spent a lot of time soul searching Thursday and then we got down to business Friday morning. Once an agreement is reached with the University of South Carolina Department of Archaeology, we will begin Phase 1 of the project. We expect it to take a year to do all the archaeological and historical work in Phase 1.

We tried. We made our best shot. Carolina had more than what we wanted to give up.

We just proved to the country that we should be the No. 1 team. We proved to everyone - other than the 12 percent that said we could win this game - that we're capable of beating North Carolina and that we're a great team.

We just wanted to come out and punch them in the face. North Carolina did the same thing to us. I was wide open so I took the shots and they went in.

We were outplayed, out-coached and thoroughly whipped by a very good North Carolina team. Our rebounding was basically nonexistent, and I'm very disappointed in the way we played.

We lost two games down the stretch at Carolina and Duke, two games we could have won. We've learned from them and used those games for experience.