Susan Tolchin Quotations

When this whole controversy over the day laborers broke, the county executive was very troubled by it. He is concerned that there's a feeling of intolerance and he feels that Westchester County is better than that. Now the mayor has to decide if he wants to end the controversy and work with us.

Basically it says we are exempt from local zoning.

It had nothing to do with him being homeless. He was a victim. This had to do with what we believe is gang-related activity.

We can't wait to get it going. It gives us things we need to make sure we can alert the public in a variety of ways with cell phones, text messaging, and tying into our current outbound calling system.

You are basically talking about paying for the rental of the county center and staff time. It's a one-hour ceremony. It is not a party.

We are not commenting any further on this. This has nothing to do with the county.

The passion level was really high coming from the people in the room he commented on the passion. So if you take this as a fact-finding mission ... he heard us. That can only be good.

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

We are very pleased that the money has been placed back in the budget and we can continue to patrol the parkways with no expense to our taxpayers.

We went into the prescription business because we wanted to help people lower the cost of their prescription drugs. There is no cost to the taxpayer or the county. People can save a lot of money.

Andy wants everybody in the same room. These are the decision makers. They need to know what's going on, to get the right information from the people who have it.

It saves tax dollars, and obviously these are people who are not a threat to the community, otherwise the judge would not have given them bail.

It's no secret that there's gang-related activity in Westchester communities. We want to do everything we can to give school officials, municipal officials, social-service agencies and all stakeholders as much information as we have in order to prevent kids from joining gangs, to help kids leave gangs.

It's an abomination. If an emergency happened right now we couldn't sound the sirens.

Certainly, there's a valid reason to investigate this, not only because of the dollar implications that have been involved in overruns, et cetera, but also in possible legal implications.

The county executive is committed to putting programs in place that would keep ... dangerous drivers off the road. This new program will go a long way toward accomplishing just that.

The county attorney has basically given us an opinion ... that says that (the) board of directors of the medical center are considered public officers and therefore cannot serve unless they are residents of New York state.