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The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
HERB KELLEHER I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conv...
HERB KELLEHER Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
HERB KELLEHER Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
HERB KELLEHER I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't ge...
HERB KELLEHER When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very...
HERB KELLEHER The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligen...
HERB KELLEHER Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.
HERB KELLEHER You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.
HERB KELLEHER Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come ba...
HERB KELLEHER Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!
HERB KELLEHER The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication ...
HERB KELLEHER I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airp...
HERB KELLEHER I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four year...
HERB KELLEHER If the employees come first, then they're happy, ... A motivated employee treats the customer well. ...
HERB KELLEHER It's all hands on deck; the ship is being shelled,
HERB KELLEHER I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
HERB KELLEHER Inevitably, as we grow bigger across the rest of the country, and Dallas remains the same size, we m...
HERB KELLEHER You'd have thought we threatened to release the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
HERB KELLEHER Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have com...
HERB KELLEHER Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, ... but we're really very conservative from the ...
HERB KELLEHER I would have to say from looking at the scene, as I've seen it, it appears there's a good chance it ...
HERB KELLEHER There was no indication that the runway was wet and they have no indications of any problems at all ...
HERB KELLEHER A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
HERB KELLEHER I want to go pro if I can, and I don't think there's any better place to be than Yale. No matter whe...
MATT KELLEHER The department has concluded that the substandard driveway connections will be reviewed in detail du...
BARBARA KELLEHER It's not a quick fix. It's not like filling in a pothole.
BARBARA KELLEHER The odds are that they were killer bees because 99.9 percent of them up here are. That's not as dang...
TOM KELLEHER At Cabinet meetings in a U.S. Parliament, the FBI chief and CIA chief both elected and facing new el...
BOB KELLEHER The Republican Party in Montana deserves a candidate who's able to make decisions and will stick wit...
BOB KELLEHER We're headed for a dictatorship.
BOB KELLEHER I would keep the president as a figurehead.
BOB KELLEHER It is presumed that the other residences had driveway permits prior to 1994.
BARBARA KELLEHER We came on strong late last year, making it to No. 9 or No. 10. Coming into the season, with the pla...
BRIAN KELLEHER You have to play the full 80 minutes.
BRIAN KELLEHER It would've helped if someone had told us the rules before the first shot. You line up for a penalty...
BRIAN KELLEHER We're pretty solid everywhere on the field.
BRIAN KELLEHER We believe this is a great project. We feel that if we can offer quality, affordable housing then pe...
BRIAN KELLEHER Ford has been able to run essentially unopposed. All through the strike GM's main concern was the ne...
JAMES KELLEHER A lot of people predicted a much sharper falloff. If you look at the numbers, they're not really ala...
JAMES KELLEHER I'm not that surprised. Listening to the first-quarter conference call, [Chief Financial Officer] Jo...
JAMES KELLEHER You could argue the Dow Corning litigation has had a significant impact on Dow Chemical.
JAMES KELLEHER The choice to elevate a much younger man might signal not so much an impatience with the current pac...
JAMES KELLEHER There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.
JAMES KELLEHER You could almost argue that investors sense some relief.
JAMES KELLEHER There's no long-term relief in sight for Dow Chemical. It remains a big target. But it doesn't mean ...
JAMES KELLEHER It's a bold move. Renault will have its hands full.
JAMES KELLEHER As other technology companies were gazing at their navels, Corning was redressing its balance-sheet ...
JAMES KELLEHER They're turning over the position, so I definitely want to fight for that spot.
MATT KELLEHER Obviously they'll have an extra edge in having a year of experience and then spring practice this ye...
MATT KELLEHER

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
HERB CAEN You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one...
HERB BROOKS You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
HERB BROOKS I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I hav...
HERB RITTS I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
HERB RITTS

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
HERB ALPERT

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian m...
HERB ALPERT

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
HERB CAEN

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
HERB SHRINER

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
HERB CAEN

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
HERB SHRINER

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the...
HERB GOLDBERG

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
HERB COHEN

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
HERB CAEN

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing report...
HERB KOHL

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution...
HERB KOHL

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
HERB ALPERT

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
HERB CAEN

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of i...
HERB CAEN Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elem...
HERB RITTS

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are tra...
HERB CAEN

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who eve...
HERB ALPERT I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a parti...
HERB RITTS I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was ...
HERB RITTS

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopota...
HERB CAEN Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a sale...
HERB RITTS Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.
HERB BROOKS Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like dri...
HERB BRODY Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.
HERB ASHER Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of po...
HERB ASHER You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities.
HERB ASHER The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The r...
HERB ASHER I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get thos...
HERB ASHER When he comes to Ohio, the economy really gets emphasized. They have incorporated the fact that Ohio...
HERB ASHER He's worked very hard on all fronts in the state.
HERB ASHER Any state can make a difference, but when you look at the arithmetic, ... it's hard to imagine that ...
HERB ASHER People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media env...
HERB ASHER We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average ...
HERB ASHER

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I ...
HERB ALPERT

Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians ...
HERB ALPERT

It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people.
HERB ALPERT

I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.
HERB ALPERT

It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It w...
HERB ALPERT

My first instinct was not to do it. I didn't want to trample on ( Whipped Cream ).
HERB ALPERT

There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happen...
HERB ALPERT

Is there an audience for it? I don't know. I don't think it's the audience who bought it originally....
HERB ALPERT

This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz an...
HERB ALPERT

We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
HERB ALPERT

See it like it is!
HERB COHEN

There are more of them than us.
HERB CAEN

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
HERB CAEN

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?
HERB CAEN

The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there.
HERB CAEN

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
HERB CAEN If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something...
HERB BROOKS There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.
HERB TRIMPE On his 20th birthday? How about that! He's a good shooter -- if he's open at the top of the key he c...
HERB SENDEK We've been pushing that Manu is certainly the only athlete that crosses Anglo, Hispanic and European...
HERB RUDOY

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirem...
HERB KOHL That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway arou...
HERB RITTS If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It...
HERB BROOKS Many people who excel are self-taught.
HERB RITTS

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahea...
HERB CAEN

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the l...
HERB ALPERT

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get...
HERB ALPERT

Instrumental music can spread the international language.
HERB ALPERT I thought our guys just showed tremendous character tonight. It's always good to be on the bus with ...
HERB SENDEK I thought we were quick to settle for the 3. At the same time, we did miss some open shots.
HERB SENDEK It's a team game. Those guys didn't take a lot of shots. We were attacking what we thought was there...
HERB SENDEK I was so happy when she returned to the area last year. What they're doing here is very commendable.
HERB EDWARDS I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the r...
HERB RITTS Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down tow...
HERB TRIMPE I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid...
HERB RITTS This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
HERB CAEN It was a good, thorough whipping. We were outperformed in every way. There was no indication that we...
HERB SENDEK

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after...
HERB CAEN For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.
HERB RITTS

A bridge is only a bridge, a highway in the sky. The ferryboats were close to the foaming heart of t...
HERB CAEN

One day if I do go to heaven...
I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Franci...
HERB CAEN Those things were all possible through the stewardship program, and if we hadn't had those dollars, ...
HERB BEHNKE I would ask that you approve the final plat but that Mayor Scott doesn't have to sign off if he is n...
HERB KLEIN Sometimes when you turn the calendar to March, everybody gets a fresh breath.
HERB SENDEK Sirens are not a good option, especially with our topography.
HERB THOMAS It must be said that all entrants were extremely talented, and there were no losers at this event.
HERB THOMAS There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.
HERB THOMAS With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is...
HERB SENDEK We hope that this will become a new tradition in Tucson, bringing film lovers back to the Fox.
HERB STRATFORD It's all a charade. Norris is a superb salesman, but I'm not buying what he's selling.
HERB LEVINE On the whole, to capture the bronze medal is really what we wanted. Especially since we graduated 75...
HERB MONES She's looking at how Paula improved so much since she's been out here. She knew Paula as a junior, c...
HERB KRICKSTEIN You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on ...
HERB BROOKS We were outplayed, out-coached and thoroughly whipped by a very good North Carolina team. Our reboun...
HERB SENDEK We wouldn't think we'd have to postpone the game.
HERB VINCENT Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
HERB RITTS We just had to get the margin sliced before the half, and we did some good things. When Tony hit tha...
HERB SENDEK Kurt is a smart enough player to know how to fit in, ... He's one of the guys that you feel comforta...
HERB WILLIAMS We've got our sights set on them. If they stumble, hopefully we can step in there.
HERB HARRIS

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.
HERB KOHL

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life...
HERB KOHL

And he understands that's a big responsibility. He's a leader on a team that has great aspirations.
HERB KOHL

It makes the hearings even more important, ... It raises the bar higher, simply because the job is e...
HERB KOHL

a famous city's most famous landmark.
HERB CAEN

A bridge is only a bridge, a highway in the sky. The ferryboats were close to the foaming heart of t...
HERB CAEN Legs feed the wolf.
HERB BROOKS I don't think it will. It'll never stop.
HERB BROOKS [I remember sitting with Brooks in his office, in late December 1999, not long after he'd taken over...
HERB BROOKS If you lose this game, you'll take it to your [expletive] graves.
HERB BROOKS Nine out of ten time we play this team, the would beat us. But not tonight because tonight is our ni...
HERB BROOKS If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.
HERB BROOKS Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
HERB BROOKS This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS It's a tradition that continues, and yet we have opposition from groups that think that animals shou...
HERB BEHNKE

The trouble with born again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around
HERB CAEN Trevor lost to an outstanding kid from Winslow, who pinned everyone else he faced in the tournament.
HERB STINSON It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, an...
HERB ELLIOTT We were outplayed, out-coached and thoroughly whipped by a very good North Carolina team. Our reboun...
HERB SENDEK I'm not surprised. That's the Atlantic Coast Conference.
HERB SENDEK

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good ab...
HERB ALPERT

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
HERB CAEN Those three guys have a wealth of experience and have played together a long time. As good as they a...
HERB SENDEK

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
HERB ALPERT We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adul...
HERB BROOKS The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.
HERB ELLIOTT Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to perso...
HERB ELLIOTT When the state cut library budgets a while back, I began to study fundraising techniques. The only t...
HERB LANDAU The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.
HERB LANDAU We try to balance the collection. The staff and I walk a tightrope, and there are occasional contest...
HERB LANDAU There are no community centers, no senior centers or youth centers. We have to serve all those purpo...
HERB LANDAU What a difference a week of earnings reports makes.
HERB KURLAN We are seeing a little bit of a rush to the exits.
HERB KURLAN We investigated this one in Oregon for several months. We have investigated several others, and have...
HERB KUHN It's kind of Medicare goes old school. This is really an effort to find better ways to support the p...
HERB KUHN There are a variety of factors going on in the marketplace, so I don't think you can say the Medicar...
HERB KUHN We're still trying to understand how much value we're getting for that.
HERB KUHN People on Medicare are going to be getting much more in benefits than they would have otherwise rece...
HERB KUHN Next year, people on Medicare will be getting much more in benefits than they had previously receive...
HERB KUHN She was just a little girl then. Everything was new to her. She's come a long way in that year. Now ...
HERB KRICKSTEIN It's funny now. Hey, it's like her swing coach Martin Hall said, 'It's better to show up with no shi...
HERB KRICKSTEIN I think she's ready for it. She's very bright. She's well-spoken and seldom at a loss for words. She...
HERB KRICKSTEIN A natural talent, OK, Dad, we are going to hand Morgan over to you to work on golf.
HERB KRICKSTEIN If she can get her schoolwork under control, she might consider going there.
HERB KRICKSTEIN He could give Carolyn a good view on what kind of person she is, as well as her academic achievement...
HERB KRICKSTEIN

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain you...
HERB KOHL

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.
HERB KOHL

As I said to him upstairs, 'The real work starts now,'
HERB KOHL

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much t...
HERB KOHL

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports an...
HERB KOHL She was a redhead, and fun.
HERB KLEIN We've been going back and forth and I thought all of the concerns were addressed.
HERB KLEIN

It wasn't a matter of public policy; it was a matter of political power.

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