Patrick Collins Quotes (16 Quotes)

there are tangible consequences to corruption.

I don't believe this case is in trouble.

If fully a quarter of your people don't show up, you are going to have to do some serious juggling to make sure the essential services continue. We've been trying to figure out where we can get people to plug into these holes.

A lot of critics indicated that this trial took long, we put on too much evidence. But there was no smoking gun in this case - this case was tried witness by witness, piece of evidence by piece of evidence. It was only looking at the totality of the case that the true picture could be shown to this jury. And that was a picture of corruption at the highest levels of government.

We have a plan right now, but we need to get a couple more things solidified.

You are the most important team in Chicago now. You guys get to decide whether what you heard in this courtroom is politics or whether it was a crime.

I probably have as many meetings about pandemic influenza as I've ever had on anything else in emergency management.

I went into this trial with the utmost respect for Mr. Webb. I had heard he is the greatest lawyer in America, and I heard he is a former U.S. attorney and that his word is his bond. That is not the way this trial has transpired. We have been lied to.

In 1998 this case started as licenses for bribes, and if anyone would have said when we first heard from a wire tap about fundraising that we would be here today talking about a verdict against the governor, I would have said they are crazy.

There's a lot of work that gets done by a lot of people around the world. Where you are, in certain industries, is not that critical any more.

We see it in everything from health care customer service to consultants who build projects together. They can work out of their homes. That happens more and more. In our market, your office might be in L.A., but you might be there once a week because you don't have to be. It's all Internet and phone.

Unless and until the state, city and county learn there are victims of corruption ... (and) unless and until people who vote understand that there are important consequences in their public officials' acts of dishonesty, this system will not change.

The Supreme Court made an important pronouncement against political corruption. It provided a useful tool, the disgorgement remedy, for use in civil litigation as a deterrent to the payment of bribes to secure government business.

I believe the juror verdict will stand. I have every bit of confidence this verdict will stand.

We would have a very hard time keeping up without the new machines. On one station we've been able to reduce the number of workers from six down to three.

There is a tremendous amount of policy issues we have to look at. What if you have the simple fact that somebody is afraid to come to work. Are we going to pay somebody not to come to work because they are afraid.