Don Thompson Quotations

Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables.

If my kids want to have fries, you know what, I'm gonna let my kids have fries. If they are active and if they're moving, there's nothing wrong with having some fries.

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

I didn't want to quit work and just sit down somewhere.

He was working on his boat at the marina, and he was trying to get out of the parking lot, but he's not familiar with the area. It's undetermined why he did what he did.

I think we are heading toward a military dictatorship.

We were lucky in that we have health insurance. That's important, especially when you're approaching the 60s and 70s.

When it's wet out people have to slow down, ... It appears (the Jeep) couldn't stop in time for whatever reason.

When we put something on, we want it to be the biggest and the best,

We would like nothing better than to do it, because it enables us to give back so much money all year long to the community, ... But can we do it? Is the economy going to be such that people will want to come out? You've got Christmas coming up, the holidays. There is a lot of things that we have to think about.

We are not able to control the amount of franchises that come in, but we can educate the public on the personal touch we can provide.

This year we've already given money away, over $100,000, ... Next year, it's going to affect us tremendously, tremendously if the fair is canceled.

We wanted to get it as close to scale as possible. I did get a lot of the information off the Internet.

The widespread financial difficulties being experienced by our citizens are a good indicator that the fair would not and should not be a top priority as individuals rebuild their lives,

Zion's mission is to make and grow disciples. Having these crosses out here carries that message, especially at Easter.

You're discriminating against the people who are the purveyors of open space. You're temporally taking our property.

It's not going to put us out of business, but we're going to have to tighten up,

It's very good to have this type of service in the north of the county, ... In an emergency situation, sometimes the trip to Syracuse or Auburn might be too long. Now we have full-time medics right here.

In my mind, the way I look at it, I would hate to see us put on half of a fair, ... You take out a livestock portion, it takes a big part of your fair away. I can't tell you what's going to happen, but I would hate to see us do a fair without full effect.

In addition, our volunteers are, and will for quite some time, be working to get their lives and businesses and those of family and friends back in order,