«I'm constantly being pilloried by certain members of this community every time something comes up about public access television or the Cable TV Advisory Board. Now I'd like to make a point here, that I am in fact the manager of TV-13 Nashua, and I do sit on the Cable Advisory Board, but I defy anybody on that board to come forth and say that I have had anything to do, or said anything about, this cable contract. I have recused myself at all times from every aspect of this contract. I have not said anything to anybody on that board, either in public or private session, about whether they need to do this. So, Ken Gidge, I don't know why you feel you need to take it out on me. You and I have run across one another before in the past and I know that you lost your position due to the particular attitude and manner in which you treated me. So let's not go there anymore about this. I would like you to retract what you just said about me. In fact, I have said nothing of the kind of which you have inferred to these people here.»

«Once you get into year three you get into corrective action,»

«The independent group of experts are not pushovers in this process. No-one should rubbish their view in advance. Perhaps, like me, they will see that the Southern is clearly the best site. Perhaps they won't.»

«[Labour MSP Gordon Jackson, QC, visited Watson in Saughton last week at the request of Clare, who wanted a] friendly face ... I was in with Mike for 20 minutes and my impression was that he is handling the situation very well.»

«It is a criminal offence but it is not criminality as we know it. Everything was put through the books.»

«It's definitely the most intense to hit the Northern Territory. It's worse than Tracy because it's a category-five whereas Tracy was a category-four.»

«When you tell people about the mud pit, you separate yourself from anybody else who does any kind of athletic activity.»