I've always thought this was another Mystic just waiting to break. We just need to give people a reason come down here and stay here.

Basically, it's a designer's dream. They didn't cut the corners on anything, and this is one reason we thought we wanted to be a part of this.

The reason we came to Finance Board was that we wanted to take people outside of A.S. to the conference. The [External Vice President of Statewide Affairs'] office did not have any more money in its budget for the event.

People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,

We thought that it was so high that the people in the cars couldn't see it. We were probably wrong.

It was tough (in the first half). I couldn't believe it was happening, because we thought we would come out strong. I think most of us were scared that we'd lose this championship, so we decided to step up.