David Warren Quotations

What we oppose is a single, national, high-stakes, one-size-fits-all, uber-outcome exam. The notion of a single exam implies there are national standards, and that implies a national curriculum. Then we are on the way to a centralized Prussian education system.

She's someone who has helped inspire a lot of the young members of the State team, and it will be exciting for them to get the chance to see and meet her.

He would have been the state's star witness, ... Because he would have shown the link between (the assault) and (McQueen) having the heart attack.

It always takes longer - there are more processes in a college than any business. Humility is pretty important. Because the (financial) gift won't come through, the class may be smaller than you thought ... trust me, over a decade there will be problems, and there won't be easy answers.

We have to preserve the event so my children and my kids' kids can go to the Greek Picnic. This is a Philadelphia tradition, and we don't want it to end.

We have a very limited number of players on our team and I'm not sure how they get so many. We're pretty much similar in size, so I'm not sure how they get so many players.

We are opposed to the use of the Social Security number in tracking students. It will drop like a rock. It will create a central ministry of higher education similar to what the French use. I don't think a single commission member will come out in support of it.

We used to call this a block party. We changed it this year to give it a (unique) identity.

We're thankful this has been without incident so far,

We tried to make it as close as we could to how it started in 1974.

And what is different this time is that we have a banking system back to health.

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

You're not going to find a lot of those, and it can be risky if the institution concludes that it's too much about you, not the university. When you look at him, the institution becomes a shadow of him.

This is not a church event. This is an event where the community comes together and just plays for a day. We really do intend for it to be a fun day for the community. It's our way of showing them that God loves them.

A lot of what we are teaching is already offered at the home schools.

There was no discussion about what those goals mean. Each goal has the potential to help the education system, but each has the ability to hurt it.

Academia was no different from the general population: A lot of people liked to look down their noses.

The Alabama Beverage Control Board's narcotics unit, one of the best kept secrets in the state,

It's a matter of controlling the event and letting people know what the event is for.

If push comes to shove, we might have to.

If you're going to come, you have to respect our event.

I'll wait and see how the new arrangement goes,

In 2005 Nasdaq executed very well to plan, growing the top-line, reducing our baseline expenses and generating a significant increase in net income.

How these next several months play out will determine whether or not these institutions make it or not. The most sensitive question is whether or not they can keep their students, because these institutions are so tuition-driven.