Tom Fiedler Quotes (5 Quotes)

I think the idea of an ombudsman here is a good one. But that would have to come from a higher place than mine.

The idea was that you had this kind of slow take-off pattern, that you could be the unknown, the Jimmy Carter, the Jimmy who in 1976 showed up in Iowa, carrying your own suitcases and do well there, and get a little money and go on to New Hampshire and do well there and get a little more money and you kind of go up the stairs.

I want to confront ... acknowledge that there were some people interested in the guild. If what underlies that interest were concerns about policies that I had, then I wanted to talk about them.

In both cases, you have these islands of trouble surrounded by seas of prosperity. The only way for either city, I think, to be pulled out of its problems is to be able to tap into the energy around it.

That is one of the unfortunate realities of being in a business where you put words on paper, then put them on a truck to be delivered hours later.