“When people that are making $150,000 a year are complaining about having to drive the Accord on the weekends and keeping the thermostat at 75, the price of oil's having an impact.”
“The Fed's hell-bent on getting rates to 4 percent but after that it needs to take a look at a lot of things. It might be wise to seriously consider stopping.”
“There is a dollar amount above which you cannot make purchases without bidding, and you can't split purchases in order to avoid reaching that dollar amount.”
“I can't make a determination as to what the intent was, but the purchases were close enough together that we interpreted it to be subject to the bid law.”
“Prices are going to go up, period, end of discussion. Energy costs are going through the roof. We still don't know the extent of the impact on building aggregates.”
“What Tom Vilsack has to do is reach out to the party leaders and say: 'Will you hold this together for me and be there with me and give me the opportunity to spend time in New Hampshire?'”
