Commissioner Sylvia Garcia quote: "While I have been an ardent supporter of bringing professional soccer to the area, I have privately and publicly encouraged the organization to strongly consider a more appropriate name, one which is free of controversy and embraced with enthusiasm by all segments of the community."

I can build many roads and bridges, but if I don't build a road or bridge for the future of our chil...
COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA

I want to be sure you're not going to be losing on this deal.
COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA

East Harris County is truly a great place to live, work and raise a family. A lot of what I do is ab...
COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA

The beauty of it is everybody working together, a number of jurisdictions.
COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA

We have to go ahead with this proactive step to get the full funding for these critical road project...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

We give the schools their tickets first, and then we go about selling the rest of them to the genera...
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

I think given the tenor of the times and the feelings of some people that it was necessary to put th...
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN

It seems like what they're playing is tit for tat. And that's not a good game to play. ... Their arg...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

I think Martin County protects its communities very well, and we keep the growth at the airport at a...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

When we start talking about so many homes, we start talking about the need for schools, the need for...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

I haven't seen or heard anything yet from the developer, but I think it's way too dense. I wonder if...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

From the actual and empirical pieces of evidence [presented here at the Senate committee probe] ther...
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

Thank you for that very very good picture but you know heroes only thrive when they are dead.
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

We've had scandals at every level of government. We need to assure the public that people are hired ...
COMMISSIONER FORREST CLAYPOOL

They're seeking accelerated growth rates and we're trying to maintain our steady minimal growth rate...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

To help strive for zero accidents, workers are often given jackets, shirts or other rewards.
COMMISSIONER DAVID MAPLE

We have very few (complimentary) tickets.
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

I'm hoping it doesn't escalate from here, but we have to look out for Martin County taxpayers.
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

There should be a transformation and reform in our electoral system starting with the moral fiber of...
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

I want to see it stay as objective as possible.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

Very likely. I would have to say, more than likely there will be some mill levy increase to take car...
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH

I have no intention of going to war with anybody, or taking an aggressive posture. This is simply lo...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

We had a wonderful year in 2005 and really turned it around. I say congratulations to the commission...
COMMISSIONER DWAYNE TAYLOR

I've seen too many 12- and 13-year-old boys drive to the beach or the club for lunch with no turn si...
COMMISSIONER FINN CASPERSEN

I know the sheriff and his administration. It sounds like a turf battle, but I'm prejudiced because ...
COMMISSIONER PAUL ELIZONDO

It's a shame millions of dollars of taxpayers' money was spent to sit there and rot. The state reall...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

I guess sooner or later you've got to fish or cut bait. I'll be interested to see what the outcome i...
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN

I will not believe anything until I see it is inked in blood.
COMMISSIONER MIGUEL TERAN

The two murals are going to be just as they were - a permanent part of the courtroom. They are going...
COMMISSIONER NORMAN WIMER

It allows people to get out of a building so much easier without mobs of people in a concourse.
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH

We are very happy to welcome the Georgetown field hockey program as a full-time member of the BIG EA...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL TRANGHESE

The people need to walk at night. We built a walking path and now they're walking in the dark.
COMMISSIONER MIGUEL TERAN

Grim is one way to describe it. We're faced with a serious financial challenge on how we can do the ...
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH

We all want to solve traffic problems but nobody wants to pay for it. We need to bite the bullet and...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

Our comprehensive plan already allows truck stops, motels and hotels at the interchange entrance to ...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

It won't be like movie theater but adequate and comfortable for people who come to view different ev...
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH

I'm hoping it doesn't escalate from here, but we have to look out for Martin County taxpayers. I thi...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

I would rather see some good old-fashioned mud than another 24 inches of asphalt.
COMMISSIONER FINN CASPERSEN

If you hadn't done what you did, you wouldn't be here right now. You would have just moved it back. ...
COMMISSIONER FINN CASPERSEN

We've done a lot of projects with him. He's one of the good guys when it comes to developers.
COMMISSIONER PAUL ELIZONDO

I think I have a lot more substance. The reason my opponent is transparent is you can see right thro...
COMMISSIONER PAUL ELIZONDO

Any time you draw attention to yourself as being non-professional, it definitely casts a shadow on t...
COMMISSIONER GARY BARTELL

We can never have too much safety. I welcome any additional component that will make our city safer.
COMMISSIONER DWAYNE TAYLOR

You're talking about something that would be a major, major change. Right now, there is good balance...
COMMISSIONER DENNIS ACKERMAN

They are different cases with different information and different circumstances.
COMMISSIONER DENNIS ACKERMAN

They went through the proper procedures, and after additional investigation we agreed with their rec...
COMMISSIONER DENNIS ACKERMAN

Times are difficult and challenging for the local workforce. We need to celebrate them.
COMMISSIONER DAVID MAPLE

One company in the area went six months without any accidents. When asked what the union wanted as a...
COMMISSIONER DAVID MAPLE

I don't expect or want the architects to come up with something that's just a stand-alone icon of so...
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH

This looks like a good deal to me.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

I don't think that really is appropriate for us as county commissioners.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

This sounds like a win-win situation to me.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

This is beyond my expertise.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

It has to go somewhere.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

I don't know exactly how you do this politically.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

It is very scary, and it isn't just our county.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

We didn't want this to set a precedent.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

My fear is, what's out there?
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER

I'm willing to have additional conversations until we're convinced we can't resolve the differences.
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER

They do more than pay our bills. They are providing a valuable service.
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER

I'm willing to stay the course and let them show me why we should continue with them.
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER

Put that into context with $50, it's not an overwhelming amount.
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN

Experience tells me that as long as you allow comments to dribble in, you are going to have problems...
COMMISSIONER ALLAN BELT

There are holes (in the regulations) the size of the Black Canyon.
COMMISSIONER ALLAN BELT

It's not an organized process; it's a free for all.
COMMISSIONER ALLAN BELT

Some of the workers had expressed an interest in having the ability to organize, and I felt that the...
COMMISSIONER SAM HART

One thing that has precipitated all of this is our failure to make the appropriate changes to the co...
COMMISSIONER SAM HART

We're not going to do any hunting, though.
COMMISSIONER SAM HART

When you're dealing with an outstanding customer ... you should make every effort to serve that cust...
COMMISSIONER ROY CHANEY

Yes I believe it is his.
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

There are also several other avenues we're looking at for this kind of find.
COMMISSIONER NORMAN WIMER

It's been a difficult time for the community through this process, and I'm glad to have a good resul...
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

That's management's responsibility. It shouldn't take this to get a management change.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

Anything we do extra, that responsibility belongs to CCA from a financial perspective.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

I'm hoping we don't have to have another conversation like this for four or five years.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

He has assets the other (applicants) don't have.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

There are no limits as to the possibilities that we will ask for and certainly the term grand jury f...
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

I can see that we need to make sure that we are protecting our families from predators as much as po...
COMMISSIONER MIGUEL TERAN

As our BIG EAST Conference football programs continue to grow and improve themselves, so too does th...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL TRANGHESE

I really feel like people do this work because they can't find anything else to do to make ends meet...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE

I don't think we're at that point right now.
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE

There are some real needs of our citizens and it's not always alcohol and drugs, it's basic necessit...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE

They can encourage residents to not go to the Treasure Coast mall all they want. That whole attitude...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

We're trying to do the best thing, but there's always the unknown out there. What if the (study) con...
COMMISSIONER MARCIA WARD

As you well know, we need to do more with less. One of my goals is to keep doing the same with the s...
COMMISSIONER MARCIA WARD

We can't just change the rules. Not after the game has started. That's not fair to anybody.
COMMISSIONER MARCIA WARD

Because of more corporate money, schools will get more general-scholarship money. And that's somethi...
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

I feel good about what's happening with this move to Charlotte.
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

There are no more tickets.
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

It looks like most of this is small in-fill development. As large tracts of land in the urban servic...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

We're not discouraging anybody from applying because some applicants may be able to get there faster...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

This is a great day for Martin County.
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

We can't have it both ways.
COMMISSIONER JACKIE COLON

We have to make sure it's environmentally sound.
COMMISSIONER JACKIE COLON

It never hurts to review the financial part of it. But right in the middle of hurricane season is re...
COMMISSIONER GARY BARTELL

We're not leaving any rock unturned to try to come up with the extra dollars that are needed to make...
COMMISSIONER GARY BARTELL

I'm not advocating your candidacy at this juncture, but I would like to have the town commission hav...
COMMISSIONER FINN CASPERSEN

We need to take a little time and do this right, rather than have a knee-jerk reaction based on emot...
COMMISSIONER ELMO RICHARDSON

I think this is a step in the right direction and we need to move forward on this as soon as possibl...
COMMISSIONER ELMO RICHARDSON

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic...
SYLVIA PLATH

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
SYLVIA PLATH

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize sudd...
SYLVIA PLATH

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
SYLVIA PLATH

What I want back is what I was.
SYLVIA PLATH

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto...
SYLVIA PLATH

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
SYLVIA PLATH

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.
SYLVIA BROWNE

No water, no life. No blue, no green.
SYLVIA EARLE

The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses...
SYLVIA PLATH

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round a...
SYLVIA PLATH

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I ...
SYLVIA PLATH

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of...
SYLVIA PLATH

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost lik...
SYLVIA PLATH

It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thought...
SYLVIA DAY

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
SYLVIA VOIROL

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction ...
SYLVIA PANKHURST

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion
SYLVIA PLATH

I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an ...
SYLVIA PLATH

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve...
SYLVIA PLATH

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the m...
SYLVIA PLATH

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
SYLVIA PLATH

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling,...
SYLVIA PLATH

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
SYLVIA PORTER

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...
SYLVIA PLATH

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and ...
SYLVIA PLATH

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I...
SYLVIA PLATH

I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...
SYLVIA PLATH

How we need another soul to cling to.
SYLVIA PLATH

I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
SYLVIA PLATH

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physi...
SYLVIA PLATH

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" ...
SYLVIA PLATH

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I h...
SYLVIA PLATH

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting...
SYLVIA PLATH

I woke to the sound of rain.
SYLVIA PLATH

Is there no way out of the mind?
SYLVIA PLATH

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH

How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...
SYLVIA PLATH

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATH

Widow. The word consumes itself.
SYLVIA PLATH

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as ...
SYLVIA PLATH

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
SYLVIA PLATH

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statistici...
SYLVIA PORTER

I am a citizen of the world.
SYLVIA BEACH

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life ...
SYLVIA PLATH

Every woman adores a Fascist.
SYLVIA PLATH

I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to re...
SYLVIA PLATH

I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of...
SYLVIA PLATH

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and ...
SYLVIA PLATH

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it...
SYLVIA EARLE

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increas...
SYLVIA EARLE

I am a victim of introspection.
SYLVIA PLATH

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the ...
SYLVIA EARLE

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possi...
SYLVIA PLATH

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
SYLVIA EARLE

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wis...
SYLVIA PLATH

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small spac...
SYLVIA PLATH

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed ove...
SYLVIA PLATH

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
SYLVIA PLATH

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
SYLVIA BROWNE

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
SYLVIA PLATH

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
SYLVIA PLATH

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? B...
SYLVIA EARLE

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructi...
SYLVIA EARLE

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they&#...
SYLVIA BROWNE

I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join th...
SYLVIA PLATH

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
SYLVIA KRISTEL

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience poss...
SYLVIA PLATH

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.
SYLVIA KRISTEL

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English...
SYLVIA PLATH

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the...
SYLVIA PLATH

The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.
SYLVIA BROWNE

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he ...
SYLVIA DAY

We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'...
SYLVIA PLATH

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass s...
SYLVIA PLATH

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
SYLVIA PLATH

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self...
SYLVIA PLATH

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...
SYLVIA PLATH

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primit...
SYLVIA PLATH

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I ha...
SYLVIA PLATH

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have...
SYLVIA PLATH

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH

Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to b...
SYLVIA PLATH

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your ...
SYLVIA PLATH

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself...
SYLVIA PLATH

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty toge...
SYLVIA PLATH

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto...
SYLVIA PLATH

I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
SYLVIA PLATH

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I a...
SYLVIA PLATH

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATH

While I have been an ardent supporter of bringing professional soccer to the area, I have privately and publicly encouraged the organization to strongly consider a more appropriate name, one which is free of controversy and embraced with enthusiasm by all segments of the community.

Commissioner Sylvia Garcia

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