Mike Moore Quotes (40 Quotes)

We were given a set of plans saying a six-foot-high wall. The Building Department reviewed them, we checked with zoning several times and every time it came back that six feet was it.

We know what our goals are, ... What we have to do is sit down and decide if the industry is going to meet those goals and if it's done in a way that's in the best interest of the public.

I have always been interested in healthcare. Through my experience in economic and community development, I have grown to understand the importance of health care, especially in rural northwestern Minnesota.

We've been very patient, but this is getting out of hand.

It's tough to sit there and watch and wait for somebody else to make mistakes.

We had to punish this industry in such a way that everybody in this country and everybody in the world would recognize that they had paid a higher price than any other,

Once your family is from there, you're born into the black and gold nation. You meet a lot of people from Pittsburgh here. Last Sunday ... was the craziest we've seen it.

the most historic public health achievement in history.

WTO General-Director Mike Moore appealed to activists to protest peacefully. I believe a debate is good. I just hope it's peaceful, ... It's difficult to maintain a dialogue if people do foolish things that disrupt the flow of information and advice.

Obviously this is the first time anyone has ever collected money from the tobacco industry, ... It underscores the importance of continuing my leadership role and Mississippi's leadership role in getting a comprehensive (national) plan.

Rodents are very intelligent. If they see one of their buddies get nailed by a spring trap, they stay away.

We finally got it pinpointed and we need to get it dealt with so he can play like he can play. He's been playing with far less than a full tank for a long time.

These are documents that were discussed and talked about in the rooms -- smoke-filled rooms -- with lawyers and chief executive officers talking about the kind of things that have caused 420,000 deaths a year, and caused our children to die from a terrible, terrible addiction,

This is the beginning of the end for how the tobacco industry has treated the American public, ... We wanted this industry to have to change the way they do business.

Everybody is a birder, from little kids that started their interest, to people wanting to connect with nature. It's interesting because you never know what you will see next.

This was a great, great hidden battle, overshadowed by Shiloh, Franklin, Tenn., and Gettysburg, ... We're about to give Corinth its just due.

They'll either give us what we want, or we'll go to trial, period,

I think its good to bring back that tradition. This (drive to a title) is bigger than basketball.

I was not surprised by anything knowing where each person comes from. There were some strong things said about the tensions in the Middle East. I have a few more books to read.

Not today, ... Not today, but maybe this week.

Our retention rate was not good at that point. Quite frankly, we didn't have the resources that we have now.

This will be very easy for me because I've known Jim a long time, ... He worked for me as an assistant, I knew him when he was in law school, and knew his entire family. I hope he has a good sense of composure.

They are 22 attorney generals and 22 politicians whose political futures just got a whole lot brighter. We will have those documents, ... and we will have those witnesses, and we will bring the other four tobacco companies to their knees.

We don't want to disrupt anything that's student-based. We won't be asking people to not participate in extracurricular activities that benefit students, ... We want to continue to work and provide the best service we know how, and we're not going to harm our students at all, but there are other means of protest.

I'm supposed to be director general of the World Trade Organization, and until China is in it, we are half a World Trade Organization.

Ninety percent of what I build is made of home salvaged architecture pieces of a house or a business. Every one is different they're one-of-a-kind pieces, you'd say.

He's sick to his stomach over it, but he's a realist. He knows he's not had his best stuff. He really wants to hit the golf ball without it hurting.

We are here today to announce what ... we believe is the most historic public health achievement in history, ... We have reached agreement in principle with the tobacco industry.

fully fund children's health care coverage.

We are not willing to give in on that. When we're finished the Food and Drug Administration will regulate nicotine as a drug or there will be no resolution whatsoever.

Trade is the ally of working people, not their enemy, ... As living standards improve, so too does education, health, the environment and labor standards.

We have set down some very unique requirements. We even know what uniforms were issued to these different units, and we've required our people to spend additional money for the right uniforms, flags, everything. That was a monumental task in itself.

We're going to bring this thing to a resolution very, very soon, ... We need some time to work details out.

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

The tobacco companies are not worried about individual smoker cases -- they have beaten them for 50 years,

The great thing about this, when different groups of first responders -- ranging from ambulance drivers to firemen to police men -- all show up with different kinds of radios, and the cell phone infrastructure could have been taken out. Then this can hop to whichever band of communications is needed to keep them connected at all times.

My wife had a C-section yesterday, and the baby kept us up until about 3 or 4 this morning. She finally got to sleep, and about 630, all the chanting woke up her and the baby,

We were hired by customers to get out of their contracts. It showed what a difficult industry this is to understand.

We wanted the industry to stop marketing to our kids, and we have developed a comprehensive plan to do that,

We've built a full-scale replica of Battery Robinett on one of the properties, off the original drawings when it was first constructed,