Paul Rice Quotations

In the last five years, sales of Fair Trade coffee have grown from 1 million pounds to 18.5 million pounds.

She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.

If it sells well, our hope is McDonald's will embrace this across their entire system and all 13,000 stores will convert to Fair Trade in the next year or two. With McDonald's, I think that sends a very powerful signal to the entire industry. Fair Trade is here to stay and mainstream Americans are concerned with fairness and they are willing to buy it.

We have had a few reports of different types of lasers -- the light entering the cockpit -- whether that has been from a terrorist group or from other groups we are not sure but that's the investigation we are doing.

It was mayhem, and my mom was always laughing and loving it. She never got tired of hearing the noise of kids. Ever.

Honestly, I was a little nervous just because it was the first game. I had the jitters before the game, but once I get out there and get my hands on the ball, I feel totally at home. I feel like I can be a dangerous player.

I don't think we're going to need a tent.

It would make more sense to make the entire road noncommercial. We don't want to be the only property owners that can't do much with their land.

Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.