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GREG ORTALE There is a lot of demand to fill hotels and the convention center in a market bound by outdated labo...
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AFTAB DADA We have a number of customers who are enamored of our convention center. They love Pittsburgh, and t...
JOE MCGRATH We moved in first to secure the Superdome. Now our mission is to secure the convention center.
JAMES MAGEE I was really excited about the turnout, ... I never thought it would get this big. We've outgrown th...
WILLIAM BOWMAN Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessm...
CAROLYN ADAMS We had convoys bringing refugees back to the Houston convention center, then taxis to take them home...
EARL LAMBERT We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a rea...
BARBARA MORGAN We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real ce...
BARBARA MORGAN One of the most amazing things was when we went into the convention center on Thursday,
BOB WOODRUFF We are so positive New Orleans is a premier destination for our conference that we have already book...
BARBARA THOMAS It will go a long way toward maximizing the potential of the convention center expansion of 2001.
FRED SAINZ We have decided not to pursue that, primarily due to space, both convention center and hotel, the nu...
BUTCH SPYRIDON Are you slow to get information? You said you just learned about the convention center. There's 25,0...
HANNAH STORM Noise is a real issue. This is kind of like putting a mini-convention center and dropping it in the ...
KATHY JAYCOX There seem to be only two discussions happening, and that's one close the convention center or be sa...
JASON GEARY It's very unfortunate. The city of Wilmington has been working hard the last 10 years to bring the c...
DALE SMITH The bulk of the impact is actually going to be a drop in TOT collections to the city of San Diego as...
APRIL BOLING We are very excited to welcome Narcotics Anonymous World Services to Philadelphia in 2013. This conv...
JACK FERGUSON Adding to the excitement this year, we have expanded to Innovations Plus at the Sands Expo and Conve...
KAREN CHUPKA There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are depl...
HAL ROGERS After we're through with all of the enhancements, I want my clients to say, 'Wow. Have you seen the ...
CHRIS MEYER The meeting and convention business is big. We welcome (them).
RON REESE Everybody is kind of looking at how we're going to provide these services. The convention center and...
ANDREW HARPER We are very excited to welcome Narcotics Anonymous World Services to Philadelphia in 2013. This conv...
JACK FERGUSON I don't see a demand for more luxury rooms near the convention center. Three, four or five years fro...
RICHARD KESSLER Obviously, that's where the opportunity is for Denver, given the new convention center. It catapults...
PETER YESAWICH A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when you...
JAMES A. FARLEY They've been looking for an opportunity to come back, but we haven't had the Convention Center avail...
JANIS SCHMEES We had the grand opening for the visitor center last week. It is a great location for visibility and...
TERRY M. TREVINO![]()
By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention c...
DEMOCRITUS clearly Saddam Hussein is being treated within the guidelines of the Geneva Convention.
SADDAM HUSSEIN We are proud to have the Sheraton Cincinnati North as part of our family of upscale hotels. The hote...
JOE GELCHION Will County is a global transportation center.
ADAM ROTH We have a new story to tell convention planners. Big meetings have always come to Atlanta because it...
MARK VAUGHAN We hope the current situation with respect to the lease agreement will be short-lived and will work ...
BILL OWEN These are mostly elderly people with chronic diseases who were herded into the convention center wit...
CONSTANCE MCNABB The governor has always said that a healthy debate is a good thing for our party. He looks forward t...
ADAM MENDELSOHN It's truly unbelievable. Remember, this is one of the beacons of New Orleans: the convention center!...
TRACY SMITH![]()
My plan is to go all the way to the convention, but after each stop you have to assess your strategy...
GARY BAUER![]()
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT We're so proud to have all of the impressive Gaylord resorts as members. It's a perfect match since ...
DAVID GABRI As the new Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill does not include an allocation of funds for t...
MICHAEL M. KAISER![]()
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
T.S. ELIOT Donna was not in the rescue business. This was kind of thrust upon her. All the birds that were evac...
JINX SCOGIN Some of the now older kids remember performing at the Convention Center in New Orleans, when they we...
GINNY BISHOP![]()
We each (China and the United States) believe we are the center of the universe, so naturally we are...
BILL BRADLEY We are excited about these new investments and expanding our already geographically diverse portfoli...
JON BORTZ![]()
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because ...
NEIL GAIMAN Each center seems to have its own flavor.
MAUREEN KELLY If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch...
JAMES DARREN [Prior to the Threadgill's show, Brandi Clark , an event co-organizer and initiative co-founder, vis...
CYRIL NEVILLE![]()
In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entre...
GREG GRANDIN If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly ...
AVISHAI DEKEL If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly ...
JOEL PRIMACK![]()
After meeting someone by chance and throwing off a few sparks, can there be any substance to the fee...
AMOR TOWLES The whole concept of having the convention was to rekindle the love for old-time music. Both young a...
GAYLE DAVIS After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. ...
YITZHAK SHAMIR The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construct...
IANNIS XENAKIS![]()
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the ...
REM KOOLHAAS The convention center itself is not going to be a cure-all for this city, ... But you're already see...
RON ODEN![]()
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT![]()
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT You are talking about what 15 to 20 hotels can do for the tournament, not just the ones downtown. Yo...
DAVE BLANK I saw people dying at the convention center, I saw people already dead, and there was nothing not...
GREGORY HENDERSON![]()
We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. ...
ERIN GRAY![]()
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When Michael Brown admitted to reporters that he didn't know thousands of survivors were stranded at...
TOM DAVIS AOL might think about it [providing Internet access] as a profit center. That's not how we think abo...
BRAD CHASE![]()
The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable C...
EDMUND MORGAN![]()
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD![]()
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT![]()
I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest di...
AMY TAN If a geo-restricted cab has a passenger going to the airport and they pick up a passenger (there), I...
RICHARD LAND The building that has been the museum's home since 1938 was never designed for that purpose. It was ...
MARTA HOWELL We were up there two weekends ago with the convention chair to meet with the people, and the convent...
BARBARA MARTIN Both properties now are essentially brand new hotels and were open in time to take advantage of the ...
ED ROHLING You don't have to be a huge convention to meet there.
MARY HENDRON In the '60s, the center of the art world was New York and we were just surfers, 15 to 20 artists bou...
PETER ALEXANDER![]()
Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We're purposely blending the classrooms next to each other to make it a more unified Early Childhood...
NANCY COX I think the convention is off to a wonderful start.
ARTUR DAVIS![]()
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th...
BLACK ELK The Fox reopens as a very flexible space, an art deco convention center really. For example, we can ...
HERB STRATFORD![]()
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW Yountville is a walking town in the heart of Napa Valley. It's a complete luxury destination where m...
ERIN RILEY Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We do...
DAVID AXELROD Visitors to New Orleans spend $5 billion per year, and 40% of that number is convention and meeting ...
DONNA KARL Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We...
JAMES DARREN![]()
[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pul...
JAY OVERTON What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
YOWERI MUSEVENI We think the convention is wide open.
CHRIS COONEY It's more of a coaching convention than it is to see players.
GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD This is not your average convention.
KARENE RIETSCHIN Right now, you have to drive from shopping center to center. So the idea here is to have centralized...
BETH WAHL
GREG ORTALE There is a lot of demand to fill hotels and the convention center in a market bound by outdated labo...
ANTHONY ABBATE We're not just selling the convention center; we're selling the destination. The convention planners...
AFTAB DADA We have a number of customers who are enamored of our convention center. They love Pittsburgh, and t...
JOE MCGRATH We moved in first to secure the Superdome. Now our mission is to secure the convention center.
JAMES MAGEE I was really excited about the turnout, ... I never thought it would get this big. We've outgrown th...
WILLIAM BOWMAN Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessm...
CAROLYN ADAMS We had convoys bringing refugees back to the Houston convention center, then taxis to take them home...
EARL LAMBERT We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a rea...
BARBARA MORGAN We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real ce...
BARBARA MORGAN One of the most amazing things was when we went into the convention center on Thursday,
BOB WOODRUFF We are so positive New Orleans is a premier destination for our conference that we have already book...
BARBARA THOMAS It will go a long way toward maximizing the potential of the convention center expansion of 2001.
FRED SAINZ We have decided not to pursue that, primarily due to space, both convention center and hotel, the nu...
BUTCH SPYRIDON Are you slow to get information? You said you just learned about the convention center. There's 25,0...
HANNAH STORM Noise is a real issue. This is kind of like putting a mini-convention center and dropping it in the ...
KATHY JAYCOX There seem to be only two discussions happening, and that's one close the convention center or be sa...
JASON GEARY It's very unfortunate. The city of Wilmington has been working hard the last 10 years to bring the c...
DALE SMITH The bulk of the impact is actually going to be a drop in TOT collections to the city of San Diego as...
APRIL BOLING We are very excited to welcome Narcotics Anonymous World Services to Philadelphia in 2013. This conv...
JACK FERGUSON Adding to the excitement this year, we have expanded to Innovations Plus at the Sands Expo and Conve...
KAREN CHUPKA There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are depl...
HAL ROGERS After we're through with all of the enhancements, I want my clients to say, 'Wow. Have you seen the ...
CHRIS MEYER The meeting and convention business is big. We welcome (them).
RON REESE Everybody is kind of looking at how we're going to provide these services. The convention center and...
ANDREW HARPER We are very excited to welcome Narcotics Anonymous World Services to Philadelphia in 2013. This conv...
JACK FERGUSON I don't see a demand for more luxury rooms near the convention center. Three, four or five years fro...
RICHARD KESSLER Obviously, that's where the opportunity is for Denver, given the new convention center. It catapults...
PETER YESAWICH A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when you...
JAMES A. FARLEY They've been looking for an opportunity to come back, but we haven't had the Convention Center avail...
JANIS SCHMEES We had the grand opening for the visitor center last week. It is a great location for visibility and...
TERRY M. TREVINO
By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention c... DEMOCRITUS clearly Saddam Hussein is being treated within the guidelines of the Geneva Convention.
SADDAM HUSSEIN We are proud to have the Sheraton Cincinnati North as part of our family of upscale hotels. The hote...
JOE GELCHION Will County is a global transportation center.
ADAM ROTH We have a new story to tell convention planners. Big meetings have always come to Atlanta because it...
MARK VAUGHAN We hope the current situation with respect to the lease agreement will be short-lived and will work ...
BILL OWEN These are mostly elderly people with chronic diseases who were herded into the convention center wit...
CONSTANCE MCNABB The governor has always said that a healthy debate is a good thing for our party. He looks forward t...
ADAM MENDELSOHN It's truly unbelievable. Remember, this is one of the beacons of New Orleans: the convention center!...
TRACY SMITH
My plan is to go all the way to the convention, but after each stop you have to assess your strategy... GARY BAUER
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. STEVEN WRIGHT We're so proud to have all of the impressive Gaylord resorts as members. It's a perfect match since ...
DAVID GABRI As the new Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill does not include an allocation of funds for t...
MICHAEL M. KAISER
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh... T.S. ELIOT Donna was not in the rescue business. This was kind of thrust upon her. All the birds that were evac...
JINX SCOGIN Some of the now older kids remember performing at the Convention Center in New Orleans, when they we...
GINNY BISHOP
We each (China and the United States) believe we are the center of the universe, so naturally we are... BILL BRADLEY We are excited about these new investments and expanding our already geographically diverse portfoli...
JON BORTZ
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because ... NEIL GAIMAN Each center seems to have its own flavor.
MAUREEN KELLY If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch...
JAMES DARREN [Prior to the Threadgill's show, Brandi Clark , an event co-organizer and initiative co-founder, vis...
CYRIL NEVILLE
In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entre... GREG GRANDIN If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly ...
AVISHAI DEKEL If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly ...
JOEL PRIMACK
After meeting someone by chance and throwing off a few sparks, can there be any substance to the fee... AMOR TOWLES The whole concept of having the convention was to rekindle the love for old-time music. Both young a...
GAYLE DAVIS After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. ...
YITZHAK SHAMIR The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construct...
IANNIS XENAKIS
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the ... REM KOOLHAAS The convention center itself is not going to be a cure-all for this city, ... But you're already see...
RON ODEN
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such... NICOLAS CHAMFORT
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such... SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT You are talking about what 15 to 20 hotels can do for the tournament, not just the ones downtown. Yo...
DAVE BLANK I saw people dying at the convention center, I saw people already dead, and there was nothing not...
GREGORY HENDERSON
We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. ... ERIN GRAY
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. CORRIE TEN BOOM When Michael Brown admitted to reporters that he didn't know thousands of survivors were stranded at...
TOM DAVIS AOL might think about it [providing Internet access] as a profit center. That's not how we think abo...
BRAD CHASE
The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable C... EDMUND MORGAN
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa... GEORGE ELIOT
I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest di... AMY TAN If a geo-restricted cab has a passenger going to the airport and they pick up a passenger (there), I...
RICHARD LAND The building that has been the museum's home since 1938 was never designed for that purpose. It was ...
MARTA HOWELL We were up there two weekends ago with the convention chair to meet with the people, and the convent...
BARBARA MARTIN Both properties now are essentially brand new hotels and were open in time to take advantage of the ...
ED ROHLING You don't have to be a huge convention to meet there.
MARY HENDRON In the '60s, the center of the art world was New York and we were just surfers, 15 to 20 artists bou...
PETER ALEXANDER
Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention. GEORGE SANTAYANA We're purposely blending the classrooms next to each other to make it a more unified Early Childhood...
NANCY COX I think the convention is off to a wonderful start.
ARTUR DAVIS
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th... BLACK ELK The Fox reopens as a very flexible space, an art deco convention center really. For example, we can ...
HERB STRATFORD
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery. ERIC PARSLOW Yountville is a walking town in the heart of Napa Valley. It's a complete luxury destination where m...
ERIN RILEY Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We do...
DAVID AXELROD Visitors to New Orleans spend $5 billion per year, and 40% of that number is convention and meeting ...
DONNA KARL Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We...
JAMES DARREN
[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pul...
JAY OVERTON What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
YOWERI MUSEVENI We think the convention is wide open.
CHRIS COONEY It's more of a coaching convention than it is to see players.
GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD This is not your average convention.
KARENE RIETSCHIN Right now, you have to drive from shopping center to center. So the idea here is to have centralized...
BETH WAHL
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top... 
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