Tom Dresslar Quotes (19 Quotes)

This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.

It's beyond money. The power provided under this contract is critical to supply stability. We cannot afford in California to take even one step back to a reliance on the spot market.

The money we are seeking is the amount we paid in excess of a just and reasonable rate, according to formulas established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Coincidence Probably not, considering the Bush administration's propensity to formally side with industry in pre-emption litigation,

We will be contacting all business entities involved in this incident.

We look forward to convincing FERC that maintaining the contracts is in the public interest.

Any time we see a tobacco company saying a product is safer than other tobacco products, our antennae go up, ... We're looking at whether the claims regarding the health effects are factually accurate and backed up by scientific evidence.

We consider this plan abysmally deficient.

If there are sex offenders who have come into California and haven't registered, that is cause for concern. We'll work with law enforcement to try to track them down, but it's a tough task.

To my knowledge, we haven't closed the investigation. We've got another pending case against Edward Jones.

It seems pretty outrageous. We are still in the preliminary stages of determining ... what criminal and civil laws could be involved. On its face, it appears the conduct poses a substantial privacy and ID-theft problem.

The federal government has no authority to prevent California, or any state, from requiring warnings that provide truthful, important information to consumers.

We're always considered an island when we're getting reamed at the pump and we question whether we should now be integrated as part of the larger system (when that system is in crisis). You can't have it both ways.

When prices were higher here than elsewhere, we were told that California's market is an island, ... Now, all of a sudden, we're not an island. Those are the questions we're asking.

We haven't gotten every penny back and we won't get every penny back. But given all of the hurdles we have had to overcome, more than 5 billion (in settlements) is pretty damn good.

We are confident that the trial court will find that the penalty is appropriate and not excessive ... Good faith and RJR are mutually exclusive.

It's not infrequent for local district attorneys to take the lead on fraud investigations. Obviously, that kind of a unit is closer to the community and closer to the problem.

probe will be officially closed in short order.

We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to senseless, graphic violence that has no purpose other than to appeal to baser instincts.