Citizens want not just input but influence.

We really think land use is a twin crisis with transportation here in Northern Virginia.

We don?t have to sit back as voters and taxpayers and hope that the government will get to it eventually, because they have a lot of other things to deal with.

You are going to eliminate some choices you have now if you don't focus on land use.

[In a May 1996 interview with] Inside Politics, ... The policy worked, and now we're getting the Iranians and their influence out of Bosnia, and I think it's a good story.

Wilkinson had a lot of high-powered influence in the United States, Spain and France. Wilkinson commissioned Pike, but what were his motives? He had already sent men into New Orleans and Texas (still under Spanish control) on filibusters or spying missions. He was making contact with Spanish viceroys and selling information to Spain (U.S. military arrangements for $12,000).