Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Valadao

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine.

This would essentially make the drawing of districts a judicial function. The Governor does not feel that this should be a judicial function.

We have had a water shortage since the 50's. It's all a big joke. They should always be bugging other water districts to lend us water for stuff like this.

We have had a pretty successful season as far as before district got here. We've improved from last year.

We have a mega-school powerhouse district. We're used to being in a 4A league that was rough like that. I thought we might be in a five-team district but it didn't work out that way.

We can't have a high school at 5,000 on one side of the district and a school drop down to 2,000 on the other side.

We have to win a game so we're the home seed all the way through the district tournament.

Sander Levin

I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.

We have three teams in this district that are very, very close. I think we have picked up our intensity and focus. We're starting to peak at the right time.

We are moving all the services that support our entire district to the new modulars,

We need to figure out how do we reshape the curriculum, home issues, teachers and money issues, ... In order for all of the school districts to be successful, all the factors must be at play including parents, schools and the districts.

We've been fortunate enough to have success this year at home due in large part to the fan support. Tonight we're going to need those fans more than ever. Regardless of how everything shakes out, there's going to be a good team from this district not in the playoffs.

We aren't as surprised to win the district championship as some other people might be.

We are not surprised, but we are disappointed by the district attorney's decision.

We made history. (Winning the district title) is something that we've talked about all season long. We actually talked about it late last season. ... It's something that means a lot to us, and we're going to have it for the rest of our lives.

We have all kinds of ways to supplement it because a half million dollars is not nearly enough for a district the size of Brevard.

Tim Hatten

We have a good district with good football players. Hattiesburg, Oak Grove and St. Stanislaus have good programs. Our players have done a good job.

We wanted to grab some quality teams for this tournament. All the teams look to be pretty evenly matched and this should be a good test for us going into district play.

We're well on our way to making this a successful district and a good place to live.

We're very saddened, something like this has not happened in the district for a long time.

Michael Gross

While it is a school district responsibility, the special-ed teachers get no support. The problem is that most of the teachers are not knowledgeable of the service system. And the teachers are not given time to learn the service system.

With only two weeks left before the district tournament, there's not a whole lot you can teach kids now. You're too far down the road to be teaching kids how to shoot and how to execute. If we can't do it now, we have a problem. The only way we can find out what's going on is to get back out here on the floor.

We've played some tough teams before now. We've tried to put our team into every situation imaginable to get them ready for the district season.

Jeremy Davies

We've played better in the District. We're playing with some confidence. We're looking forward to the opportunity (to play for a District title).

We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case.

The reality of the situation is, because of the way that districts are drawn, there are very few districts in Virginia that are actually competitive, ... Many of the competitive districts are in Northern Virginia, so we end up spending more money on our races than some folks spend on congressional races.

We offered to let her be a non-speaking member of UNME (teachers union) just so she could attend, but the district didn't think that was legal.

We, of course, would like to see the legislature do three things. One is increase overall funding to public schools so that our school district has the resources that it needs to get the job done for all kids. That's got to be their No. 1 priority.

We're talking about potentially blighting one of the most historic districts in Buffalo.

G. H. Hardy

We've been as patient as we could, but the district has not given any indication that they are willing to settle this.

There are seven teams in our district that have five losses or fewer.

There are school districts that show a ton of success with demographics just like ours. Let's go see what the heck they're doing.

There are school districts that are trying to find minorities because of the populations they serve, and our staff works to make those connections.