Whenever rates go up a little bit, some people aren't going to qualify. But buyers are better off because of the balanced market. That helps them more than slightly higher rates hurt them.

In a more balanced market there's not the feeding frenzy.

We need a couple of winners out of here, such as papaya or coffee, to be able to subsidize the other projects. We're getting very close in that effort.

Why are there so many highly educated people? The answer is this area can attract them. Seattle is a nice place to live. For its size, it has a lot of cultural amenities as well as natural amenities, and we're fortunate to have some pretty interesting companies, Boeing and Microsoft being just two of them.

There are reports that these people are in uniforms, in some cases are wearing protective vests, and there's some suspicion that their training exceeds that of what we have seen with other engagements further east,

I think it is a bogus claim people in the press make when they say what the right wants is a fight about ideology, ... No. What we want is a good justice nominee but not a fight for the sake of having a fight. If it takes a fight to get a good justice, fine.