Bruce Harris Quotations

Bureaus provide services to convention groups; they provide education through sponsorship dollars at meetings like this. But isn't it interesting. Bureaus are under attack, but we're not doing anything about it.

We received some complaints, especially from our monthly rental customers, some who thought we were just trying to bump up the price, ... After we explained that the tax was passed by the city council and we had nothing to do with it, nor do we make any money from it, they understood.

We haven't lost any customers because it's a tax that affects all rental businesses in the city, so it wouldn't help for customers to rent from another store in town. We're all in the same boat, ... It's just like the rising cost of gasoline. It's a cost that we have to pass along to our customers and they understand that. They don't like it, but they understand we're doing what we have to do.

We launched the teddy bear campaign three weeks ago for the children affected in Honduras and Nicaragua. Our goal was a very ambitious one -- 100,000 teddy bears. But in such a short period we've almost reached 200,000.

We want to do something for the mental health of the boys and girls damaged by Hurricane Mitch,

It's not like the board acted on a whim. We need to protect the public interest.