Mike Cooke Quotations

We would seriously question the judgment of any board member or administrator who would have this community believe that they can simply fire the current employees and contract with an outside company to bring in strangers to work in our schools, and still provide the same degree of quality, safety and service that our current custodians and head custodians provide.

Music is fine and all, but we need something else too. We're trying to bring some variety to the station and have fun while doing it.

He just slipped out from me. I was just trying to keep it close going into the third period, but he was able to reverse me. When I was able to get on top of him and throw in the legs on him, he didn't like it at all because he couldn't do anything. When he wakes up tomorrow, I am sure his shoulder will not allow him forget what happened.

I think it is almost inevitable that it will happen. It's not going to go away.

I was convinced that this was a very, very good use of our time.

Our main danger is either going to be birds brought in inadvertently on a plane or something like that or perhaps people even smuggling birds in.

I wish we weren't there. I support the president, but for me, personally, this is the one area where I really can't agree with him.

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

You don't expect things like this to happen in a building like ours.

We're clearly the market leader with 250,000 subscribers. We've been in the business 10 years. It's a profitable business. We've been through all the technical issues with the service.

Viruses have a way of defeating our plans and that's something everyone is going to have to be aware of.

We know that the problem is still out there, and especially in the wireless community and mobile community.

We probably made the assumptions for them in those days, as well. We try not to do that anymore,

We had subtle differences, not intentional discrimination of any kind, but subtle differences in the way we assigned people.

Tony has a wealth of experience in the government sector and is a tremendous addition to our team. We expect his talent and expertise to lend pivotal support to our strategic government initiatives.

We wanted him to stay but he wasn't keen to take less money and, to be honest, I don't really blame him considering all the travelling he has had to do.

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

There was no family fight just before, no mental illness. There was no apparent reason for him to take his life,

It's not good to hear that an organization that you grew up with, you care a lot about, you believe is fair and that you believe gives everybody full opportunity had conditions, not intended, but conditions which kept that from happening,

It's going to spread to the North American bird population. It will come from them to spread to the poultry industry.

It's not a matter of just technical competence, it is imagination. It's creativity. It's intellect. A problem solving mentality. ... We must have the best talent, the most talented people. And that said, we'd better keep them when we get them, as well as we can, because we're going to need them.

I think about all those meters running in that training room and the amount of revenue that represents to us.

His just being there meant a lot to me. To have him there along with the rest of my family supporting me really meant a lot to me.

The first thing I noticed was the portrait of the board. It's still pretty much a collection of white guys.