Keith Bishop Quotations

So many people in the community depend on us. A number of lives are affected through our operation, from managers in the 20-year range to part-time high school students, to those who help seasonally harvest crops. They've all been key to getting the work done.

I would be livid if whatever happened to these young men at Duke happened to my daughter.

I don't think another interest group in Durham has as compelling a membership roster as the Durham Committee, or as compelling a history. So I take it seriously as a compelling endorsement. I don't have any hesitation because one of the things the committee does is, it doesn't always go with what appears to be the mainstream view.

It casts a long shadow over the integrity of your administration of this case.

It casts a long shadow over the integrity of your administration. Don't put the public through this kind of discord. You should have some compassion both for those who are accused and for the victim. I would have done things a lot differently -- with integrity.

Someone needs to say from time to time that our leaders are appointed leaders, are engaged in practices that are arrogant.

We are like stewards. We're here as holders for future generations.

When Jon and I put the addition on the back of the store in 1978, we were told we'd have to work really hard to pay for it.

You have to know when you make errors.

Do you want to live over the next four years what we have endured for the last three weeks?

The cafeteria is not quite big enough to hold 400 kids at once.

They have a fairly solid view of what will best advance the interests of all people in Durham. If I had to get one, this would have been the one.

You don't get into the media and start making guarantees about arrests and talking about a case in the manner he has done without facts.

It's no wonder this community is as fragile as it is and is able to break like a twig under the unsteady hand of the incumbent.

He told us there would be arrests. That hasn't happened. He told us the DNA would prove conclusively who was responsible. That hasn't happened.

If I had enough evidence to make an arrest, there would have been an arrest. If you don't have the correct information, you should have sat back and been silent. It casts a long shadow over the integrity of your administration. Don't put the public through this kind of discord. You should have some compassion both for those who are accused and for the victim. I would have done things a lot differently -- with integrity.