Patrick Anderson Quotes (18 Quotes)

In order to be a first-class state, you have to have a first-class airport and convenient air travel, and Northwest's connections to Japan and China and Europe have been very important to Michigan.

We don't want to put conditions, because we can't put conditions, but lets put a feel-good statement out there that has no meaning. We were told we can't make all these warm fuzzy good motions. If it's in the city then that's an issue. The Community Development Commission isn't in charge of making everybody feel good.

It was possible for people with a high school education to get a job that paid 75,000 to 100,000 and six weeks of paid vacation. Those jobs are disappearing. The ... low-skill, upper-middle-class way of life is in danger.

Health care costs are one area where local governments have as much trouble as anybody else, with very little control. You can do some things to control health care costs, but they're painful.

It's not so much a rahrah type of thing. It's just going after it every day. It's 140 games. When we were going well, 11game winning streak, little things were happening. Balls were falling in. Guys were just competing. We have to do the same thing when we're struggling. These kids compete every day.

Right now he's just taking it one pitch at a time and trying to get good pitches to hit. He's been working his tail off. I've been real happy for him the last week or so.

The fact that an offer of this magnitude wasn't enough to keep one Ford factory here underlines how bad Michigan's business climate is and how difficult times are for our domestic automakers.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It should give people, institutions and politicians the necessary courage to implement change.

It's mostly concentration, being consistent every day with his early work and preparing himself for a game. When he watches the ball all the way through and gets good pitches to hit, he has a chance. You start getting frustrated and when you get frustrated you get in a slump, so to speak. You're overdoing things. You're trying to do too much. That's what he got into.

There comes a point in labor-management negotiations when you have to think about the survival of your bargaining partner, and we are well past that point, ... The Delphi bankruptcy put a flamethrower on a grim reality that's been evident for some time.

Sharon's Management has helped take our market research and analysis practice to a national level. We're excited to have her as a Principal in our firm.

I can't think of a clearer signal to investors to stay away from Michigan than that. It's one of the most dangerous initiatives for the Michigan economy in years.

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over,

The only sliver of a silver lining is that the tourism industry has held its own.

Everyone thought I was the underdog, but we showed them.

It's wrong to think of the automobile industry as a dinosaur. The automobile industry is the cornerstone of the high-tech industry in Michigan.

Most businesspeople are properly skeptical of government programs labeled 'streamlined,' ... I'm skeptical of the burden this is placing on some smaller businesses. I'm skeptical of government's efforts to force retailers to charge taxes for an incredible number of municipalities around the country.

No two ways about it, the July report is bad news. We will have the highest (jobless) rate in the country, or be darn near it.