Joseph Wood Quotes (12 Quotes)

It's without a doubt the worst visual spot in town. We don't always get complaints from those areas. You've got folks whose property is in the same condition as the people across the street.

He also doesn't always act in a proper manner at City Council meetings, ... I think the mayor's office should take a little different direction.

We will speak to the community about what they want in improvements, such as in transportation, traffic, pedestrian traffic and aesthetic features.

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

I had intended to serve one more term as mayor pro-tem, then retire from public service and move out to my farm in the county, ... But over the weekend I decided it would be better for Gray for me to spend this last four years as mayor. If I stayed as mayor pro-tem, it would be like I was condoning the way Mayor Briley is doing things, and I don't.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away

People who are making us do additional work are liable for the cost. Rather than burdening the entire population with the work caused by a few, it makes a few accountable for the cost.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm

In the late '90s, lots of other people had entered the business and it got crowded. As the new team came on board, we asked how do we compete differently in this marketplace