Mike Lewis Quotations

On Sept. 8, I opened the gates and drained it for 45 days. We got it down to three acres of surface water.

I would definitely hold my wife for that extra second.

I don't want to armchair quarterback, but I didn't feel she did a very strong job that day when we turned to our anchors in a national crisis.

The packer knows better. It's shameful that so many people can get hurt from making this kind of a mistake.

He was so focused on the target, he didn't see the other guy in front of him.

It accelerated the change. If they hadn't won, I don't know what would've happened. But it did happen, and it was positive.

Physically, he resembles him a little bit, at least a slight resemblance, the shape of his face, the brown hair. Journalistically, he's kind of followed in Jennings' footsteps, as far as he's done a lot of foreign reporting. He was embedded with the Marines in Iraq. Bosnia, Afghanistan. Pakistan. ... He's not a lightweight.

I thought in the first half we played all right, but we just turned the ball over too many times in the second half and we were too inconsistent on offense. We knew it was going to be a tough battle, and I hoped we could stick in there and pull it out at the end.

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

There are a lot of hoops to jump through to do that. We had a couple of public meetings. We talked to the campers. We told them what our management was going to be in the future.

We think the real reason the outage was a black eye for the industry is that they didn't initially communicate.

There has always been a perception negotiations were much more jointly handled than they were in practice.

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

This guy is an innovator and an American hero.

It's of big significance in the news industry and in society. We're making progress, as delayed as it is. We don't have three old white guys reading the news anymore.

It will be catch and release, we're thinking for a couple of years. Kurt said they will grow big quickly. I think people will be surprised at how fast the fish respond.

The USDA has got to take a lot of heat for this. They were very sloppy.

I'm not quite certain what it means. Everyone is just now finding out about this.