Anne Patterson Quotations

We reached our goal and may have exceeded it from last year. I am super pleased on how the event turned out. I just wish the bad weather would have held off.

Yes, narcotics are readily available. But if we weren't doing these projects, the problem would be dramatically worse.

Last year we had between 20 to 25 teams and raised approximately $50,000. Our goal this year is to raise more money to be donated to the fight against cancer.

Obviously we'll do a full investigation, working with the Iraqis.

He would come by daily to do extra work to develop the math skills he needed for the military.

Relay for Life is an opportunity for residents to come together as a community to support community members who have survived cancer, who are fighting cancer, and to remember those who lost their battle with cancer.

Sure, it's a frustration. There's no victory. It's just sort of like fighting a chronic disease.

We are concerned about the inability thus far of Bolivia's new president to articulate whether or not he will allow coca eradication and US counter-narcotics assistance to continue.

We are looking for 30 to 35 teams to sign up for this year's event. A team consists of eight to 15 members and each team can select its own anti-cancer slogan.

We have contacted 90 survivors, some from last year and new ones who joined us this year, and invited them to come and participate in this event. The survivors will also need to check in at their table between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. where they will receive their purple survivor's shirt and a Relay for Life t-shirt if they are on a team.

We only had 50 survivors at the event. We sent out 75 invitations from last year plus an additional 20 that were brought to our attention. So far, we have identified approximately 100 survivors and we are working to get more of them to keep coming to our annual event.

The United States conducts interventions (against drug trafficking) at the invitation of the Colombian government.

The U.S. would very much like to bring this to the council if we can get sufficient support, ... We think it belongs in the council.

This is a very dramatic development. These gentlemen who have been arrested do have ties reportedly, have longstanding ties with Syria.

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.

And on human rights, we had a broad coalition on that, and it's too bad that certain countries like Egypt and Pakistan and Cuba and frankly China tried to derail it, but we'll deal with it in the General Assembly and I think there's some steam behind it,