Your Week: Quotes
July 30, 2006
The Salt Lake Tribune
"He's not Jack Abramoff. . . . But it's a series of choices that, from a public policy perspective, one would have hoped that the HHS secretary would have made differently."
- Rick Cohen, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, discussing Mike Leavitt and his family's tax shelter.
"We're still in a pretty good environment."
- Kelly K. Matthews, executive vice president and economist for Wells Fargo, discussing Utah's strong economy.
"It's not like they're forcing me to go."
- North Salt Lake Mayor Kay Briggs on being transferred by the LDS Church to a job in the Dominican Republic.
"It was amazing to see what happened. It sends the message that we've got to get this thing out of here."
- Grand County Councilwoman Joette Langianese, on a flash flood that endangered a uranium tailings pile and the need to move the toxic waste.
© 2006 The Salt Lake Tribune
