John Turner Quotations

Yes, ma'am, I have. But I'd like to try to set it right.

Nobody will be willing to go on strike again. You might as well go back to the table and get it over with.

When he was a younger man, Jimmy used to go in for a few beers. He used to tease me because I never drank anything but Coke.

Greenhouse gases could be having a bigger impact in Antarctica than across the rest of the world, and we don't understand why.

Part of me is worried that we have a consumer-driven mentality that my health care is a commodity and it's up for the best bidder. That's very concerning because that's not the way health care should be delivered.

That could point to some mechanism of climate change we don't understand, a failing in these models, or just a result of natural climate variability.

We wanted to open the bathing area for residents while the rest of the excavation was being completed. We recognize there is still much work to be done, and it will be completed before the opening of the bathing season.

We have the classic global warming signal. It is like the blanket on the bed: When we wrap the Earth with a blanket of greenhouse gases... we trap heat under it at the expense of the atmosphere above, which then cools.

This scientific center will do a lot of that type of work with food products coming from South and Central America.

We began a cancer fund drive in conjunction with the tournament, ... She was a close friend, and I felt like I wanted to do something to honor her and raise money for cancer awareness.

There are going to be a lot of people who will tell you 'you can't do that' or 'it's too dangerous' or 'why would you ever consider doing something like that.' And I think for everybody, it's a message that it takes courage and it takes a sense of purpose to come back to your dreams that you may have had as a child and continue to pursue them.

We've reached a real breakthrough with the summit in our collective attempt to ensure that this is a successful gathering of the global family,

This new distribution agreement brings a host of opportunities for solutions resellers and property developers looking to tap into the digital home market.

The security mission, which has always been there, has gone more to the forefront,

The swearing of Turner, a man of immense frame and muscular power, during our evening's conversation, was most terrific. I had heard mountain swearing before, but his went far beyond all former examples. He could do all the swearing for our army in Mexico, and then have a surplus.

Prior to the chair, (detention officers) would have to put on rubber gloves and go into (the inmates') bodies.

There wasn't a cleanup issue on the FWP land. The Berg property was a whole other game plan.

There wasn't a cleanup issue on the FWP land.

Not that I know of. Doyle, I owe you.

Take ten people and charge each one $38.

It's an association, Jeff. People come together to make things and sell them. They share the work and the profits.

It's disgusting stuff. It's not like Playboy magazines.

They are not lying. The current profile of the beach is unacceptable.

Not often do I agree with the government, but I think they might be on the right track here.

I heard this pop, pop, pop! It sounded like it was circling almost, so I ran outside to see what it was. (There was a) big boom and the pieces started falling.

I don't know. I guess I'm tired of chasing city rats.

You reduce the cost of labs if you buy for here in Atlanta not trying to staff five other labs, ... There's a great deal of efficiency.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

The city of Hermiston has been very cooperative of this idea (the new facility).