Michael McDermott Quotations

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Usually, the last thing you do is lay someone off. If they had finished everything and had to do this as a last resort, that's one thing. But they didn't even try to work out the numbers.

I am satisfied with the result we have come up with, but I am deeply dissatisfied with the way that we had to come up with it today, ... Everything prior went very very well, but today was a day I never want to go through again.

That's a disgrace that they couldn't even get his name right. It's a slap in the face.

It feels more like there's forced selling, people doing things cause they have to and not necessarily that they're taking this one number and saying that this is what is going to happen going forward in the economy.

I think it is reasonable to assume we could have a definitive recertification of all the ballots by midday tomorrow,

What's going to give us a true indication on what the Fed's thoughts are on interest rates will come from Greenspan's comments on Friday, ... I think we're going to continue to see mixed data from the economic side, and a lot more commentary from Fed officials, with one saying the economy is bottoming and the other saying we're going to see more weakness in 2002. That will continue into the first half of this year.