We are still evaluating what this decision means and what the dollar effect is on the state. But it's safe to say we're talking millions.

If this (the discrimination decision) was made by a federal court, and not a federal agency, we might look at it differently,

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments.

The actual decision is not subject to meet and confer,

It's a very difficult decision, not just for our hemisphere but for Asian cultures as well. There was a solid faction that didn't want the IOC appearing that they would flip on issues.