Mike McCabe Quotations

We are at a point of crisis. This will prove to be a very dark moment.

We felt it was really important for their to be a strong citizen presence at the Capitol today and let them know that people are watching and they're not happy with the way the public's business is being conducted.

I find that people care deeply but they don't know what to do about it. I think one of the great obstacles has been this feeling of powerlessness.

I think what's striking here with both of these companies is that neither of them had any track record of supporting Jim Doyle until they got state business. It certainly creates suspicion about the decision to give these contracts to these companies.

I think this is the first tremor that will ultimately be a political earthquake and that earthquake I think will change the political landscape in Wisconsin.

That creates the appearance of government for sale. It feeds a growing public suspicion that campaign donors are treated differently, that they're given favors in state government. Of course that has an enormous corrosive effect on public confidence in our state government.

It does raise the question, is the official business really necessary, or is it just cover for campaign fundraising activity?

We used to have a 330-yard cinder track. Now it's cut to 200. They put a baseball field in the back corner.

There have been spotty things here and there. It's a surprise that we stuck it all together.

To the best of my knowledge, we have not been officially served with the legal papers. When we are, we will respond appropriately. We take this very seriously.

When you look at the amount of money the tribes appear willing to put on the table, they look like the 8,000-pound gorilla. And, so far, they have cast their lot with the Democrats.

What's discouraging here is that the campaign is being so secretive about who actually paid for these tickets originally.

You have to wonder why does this company get this treatment? And, why did maybe hundreds of other invitations get turned down? The obvious thing that comes to mind is (the) campaign contributions.

The public is giving the politicians a vote of no confidence.

We are going to clean up this building.

This is basically a dispatch center on wheels. This was the first time we worked with the new communications system, and it went very well.

This is important to democracy, because if voters can't trust that their votes are being counted and election officials don't have a paper record that they can go back and review during recounts, then we're lost.

The way the legislative districts are drawn, representatives handpick their voters and have tailor-made districts.

They modeled the recovery of the canal for the volumes of water we had in the '04 storms, and there was less water than we had during the actual storms.

It's tremendously problematic for the (Walker) campaign to be using a suite.

It's impossible to expect the public to buy that it's all a coincidence. It's too much to ask people to swallow.

I recall that (Clemson) game for a different reason. It was unique in that we scored on every possession. Regardless of the opponent, that (performance) made it special. That's what you shoot for, perfection.

The kinds of people who are donating to Wisconsin campaigns is markedly different than it was in the not-too-distant past.