Jerry Sanders Quotations

The people of San Diego voted for a strong mayor, ... not a strong city attorney.

I am really excited about the support I've gotten from San Diego,

What I have proposed is putting a comprehensive plan together and finding out exactly what land the city has. What we would look into selling are the odds and ends: pieces that don't fit into parks, pieces that aren't in the public way.

I think the problem is you can't just kind of reveal things,

I will close down the existing pension plan for future employees,

Some management positions vacated by these resignations will be eliminated, consistent with my plans to flatten and streamline City Hall bureaucracy,

It disappeared as if somehow the citizens were to blame for the problems that we have right now. Starting today, that will be back on the city's Web site.

We'll buttress ourselves against any foolish moves by our competitor, ... clock cycle by clock cycle.

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor. Intel has managed to put everybody else out of the business except us. So it's a two-man game right now. We're the challenger, they're the champion. But I think we've got a great chance here to continue to gain market share.

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor,

What I think really needs to be done in San Diego is to regain the confidence of the community, to let them know what I am going to do and then have them hold me responsible for doing it.

We will focus our organization around our two most promising opportunities ? flash memory devices and PC processors,

While we expect only very modest overall growth in the semiconductor industry next year, we believe that our new product offerings and low manufacturing costs will result in a profitable year overall for AMD in 2002,

We just need to clean house, ... It's obvious right now this is systematic. It just continues over and over and there might be more time bombs waiting.

We are very proud to bring awareness to the issues on the Gulf Coast with the rebuilding. To have Major League Baseball contribute what they did and to allow us as a city to see what's going on -- to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity -- having corporate partners and most of all having the Padres invite us to be part of this -- we are very excited about it.

continues to show we have a systematic problem at the city.

I've been coming to Palm Springs for 12 years just on holiday. Each year, I've been spending more and more time out here.

These actions will allow us to reduce costs without impairing our new product development activities in pursuit of long-term growth opportunities,

AMD held market share in the 22 percent range in a very weak PC market made more difficult by our principal competitor's efforts to halt our forward momentum,

They have both had great careers and are known for being very honest. They made the right decision in not being legal advisers because they felt there was conflict of interest.

They are expecting to have the lock on City Hall they've had for some time,

It's just a culture of concealing things from the public, and this is just another sample of it,

It's the citizens that make this city great. It's business, academia, arts and culture, the military that make this city one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work.

The voters have expressed their desire for change and much-needed accountability by passing the strong mayor initiative, ... The voters' mandate cannot be carried out in an atmosphere where high-ranking officials are more concerned with defending their past mistakes than in adopting needed reforms.

If there are people that want pay raises, then they can find a job someplace else. That's what they should do.

I just like the atmosphere down here, and I like street fair days as well.

I have said from day one that I would use the threat of bankruptcy and that the unions will respond to that threat and come back to the negotiating table,

It has to be in the best interest of the community to get a ruling on those benefits. Whether I lose a percentage point or not is not important compared to the city's financial viability.

If current business conditions prevail, our revenues could decline by more than $100 million in the current quarter, and we would report an operating loss,

The cultural reform at City Hall will start immediately, the day I take office.

The city's problems won't be solved in eight weeks. They won't be solved in eight months, but the pursuit of solutions will begin tomorrow,