Bob Burns Quotations

No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here.

I expected to get water, ... I didn't expect to come back and not have a house.

GM taking the step to tear down the buildings and find ways to redevelop the property is a good thing, ... It's a positive development.

I get them up and do things with water pistols, PVC piles with a hunk of clay or play dough in it to be arteriosclerosis and things like that,

I think we would invite defeat (of proposed revisions) if we were to change these percentages.

I suppose one can try to search for logic and a rational behind why people choose to buy certain products over others. If people are buying more products that support Bush, it may either suggest more confidence in the incumbent over Kerry. On the other hand, if products supporting the opponent are selling better, it could be a sign of waning confidence in the incumbent.

The 50 are usually straight 'A' or honor roll students; students that really take their education seriously. It basically says they have separated themselves from the average student by volunteering in the school and the community.

We had some trouble in a couple of different areas.

We have 41 in the program, counting everyone. We're small. We're hoping to grow.

We wonder if the Legislature would approve a law that violates freedom of speech protected by the First and 14th Amendments, simply to create a test case. It seems to be a peculiar approach to lawmaking.

These are random and odds ways to gauge what the public thinks.

The system was capable of huge swings. Dividing Sioux Falls into several single-member districts made that much more unlikely. You still can have swings, but it would be very difficult to have the kind that happened in the 1970s.

Something like secretary of defense or state would be hard to turn down.

Almost everyone's saying no later than 2020, we'll have something. I think that just about everyone has concluded that it's going to happen, it's just a matter of when.

It's been something we've wanted for a long time.

It's a good way to chase businesses out of the county.

It's a question of whether the president's domestic agenda, which Sen. Thune endorsed earlier, is going to go very far this calendar year, ... There's been some changed priorities.

For a company this size, I don't think it is uncommon if they are operating on multiple sites, which I believe the violations are from various sites. I don't think it's unusual.