If we continue with the pathetic proposal for $20 million a year, it would take well over a century, well over 100 years, to get rivers back to where they are safe to swim in.

If the pathetic level of funding in the proposed budget continues, restoration of the dead zone in the Sound will continue for a quarter century and raw sewage will flow into the Connecticut River and Sound for at least another hundred years. This is totally unacceptable to Save the Sound, and I venture to say, every member of the Coalition.

It was really a pathetic year. Some of the things I did — some of the crashes I was in — I didn't need to be in. I forced the issue.

We really saw the market begin to rebound in 2004 and continue through 2005, which was a very good year for us. As we look forward through 2006, we are ahead of our pace from last year.

It's getting pathetic that my 8-year-old son isn't safe in his house.

It's definitely worse than last year. We're so far above it that's it's pathetic.