Jack Evans Quotes (33 Quotes)

I think the development community will pony up, or we just won't build underground parking. My goal is to get the stadium built. We just can't get bogged down in this minutiae.

It should have been done a long time ago. It's starting to look to us as if they are being forced to do it by baseball in order to look better or look the part.

FEMA directed all of the flights to Lackland Air Force Base outside of San Antonio, Evans said. He said that 11 U.S. airlines and Air Canada had offered to help but that constraints at the air fields severely limited the number of flights. It's a very fluid situation out there, and we're hoping to ramp up quickly, ... But New Orleans is not running like a normal metropolitan airport right now.

It is not possible for the city to spend more than 535 million because the council has authorized the city to borrow that,

Airlines are tired of bankruptcy, too. Actually, what we've grown weary of are the record-high fuel costs that have masked any of the gains we've made in efficiency, ... it would be a completely different ballgame.

Frankly, that's where we are today. In the last five years, this government has spent 1 billion to renovate schools. And yet you saw witness after witness come before us today saying the bathrooms at Hardy aren't undone. How could that be

We've worked closely with our partners throughout the development process to ensure Vista provide unprecedented flexibility and opportunity to them.

If this enables debate about where to put the stadium and brings it back to the forefront, that is very problematic. It would be very hard to get seven votes to keep the stadium at the Southeast waterfront.

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

We are getting the word out there (to pilots) to make sure you give enough time for these motors to cool down if you do go through the check again.

If there is no other action taken by the council, then the lease will be in effect. And I believe baseball will be here to stay.

It's a pretty normal procedure in terms of how we enforce our trademarks. In the course of enforcing that trademark ... we asked him to agree to waive any rights he had to the name, which he did.

By and large, these decisions are being based on our decision to focus on core businesses.

Evans, you may recall, also declared himself a candidate for mayor earlier this year. But this time it's for real, he said. I've talked to all my colleagues, to the mayor, to my supporters. I'm definitely going to do it, ... Not tomorrow. But I'll get around to it.

Microsoft is working hard to resolve the concerns raised today by the DOJ. In our filing Jan. 17, we detailed the efforts we've made to increase the speed of our responses to technical documentation issues found by the Technical Committee.

The industry has very little pricing power. We know that consumers are very price-sensitive when it comes to airline pricing, and with so many competitors, they gravitate to the lowest fare.

We just don't disclose our business plans to third parties before we announce new products.

We will continue with the trial of the remanded case before the District Court and we're confident that our position will ultimately prevail,

We will continue the trial of the remanded case in the district court and we are confident that we will ultimately prevail,

We're making some real progress. We've got a long way to go. We still don't have a deal. Hopefully by Monday they will work out the agreement. And then the bond agencies still have to sign off on it.

Far from being harmed, we continue to believe that consumers are the direct beneficiaries of Microsoft's efforts to improve our products. Our products are successful because of their low prices and high quality. Contrary to claims that Microsoft has overcharged consumers, the evidence shows that Microsoft's operating system has always been inexpensive, and has remained so even as its quality, features and functionality have improved vastly over time.

I have used a political action committee . . . to support Democratic candidates and good causes, and to cover political expenses of mine that are not related to a campaign or to constituent services, and are not appropriate to charge to taxpayers.

Clark is a very good company. We look forward to working with them, ... You never know. We'll have to see when it comes this fall. I'm hoping it all gets done.

It's not enforceable, and secondly, it violates the baseball agreement,

The FAA is not taking exception with that action plan. At this point, I have no idea whether we are going to (contest the penalty) or what if anything we will have to say about it.

It may be that some pilots are being overly cautious and are running through their checks several more times than they typically do.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) said M.R. Beal initially got District business because it was minority-owned but has since performed as well as any of its bigger Wall Street competitors. They are part of our minority contractors program, ... But they have also done a very good job for us in terms of getting us excellent rates on our bonds.

In many ways one sounds so heartless in dealing with this, but we have to have a practical approach, ... We're not going to solve prostitution, not by passing laws, and after 15 years that's the bottom line. But when we put these prohibitions in place, it works. If we hit it really hard, they'll just go someplace else.

I want to get the project done. I'm not saying we're taking too long, but having been through this with MCI Center and the convention center, time is of the essence. We need to keep moving forward.

but other than that, the airlines are doing this on a volunteer basis. The crews on board are all volunteers.

It's kind of ironic. It was harder to keep baseball than it was to get baseball.

From their perspective, it's well within their rights to do it. They probably feel keeping the pressure on will make the process go faster.

The majority of people who have bought the console are very happy with it. But we will investigate any complaints of overheating.