Steve Ellis Quotations

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New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

It almost looks like a spoils system between various agencies.

When the Atkins Diet became a rage and people stopped eating carbohydrates, we didn't do something to protect pizza parlors.

We have real needs that we have to meet for rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and with our tight budgets, this is almost a zero-sum game. And now we're taking about moving a railroad that's been rebuilt already? That doesn't make sense.

We live in a semi-desert area, and every year there will be fires.

There is little doubt by making it safer to develop in high risk areas by promising to fund people to rebuild through flood insurance, we have made people feel it is safe to move into these areas.

Congress and the SBA appeared to be more interested in shoveling the money out than they were in actually making sure that they were helping people affected by the 9/11 attacks.

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

They already have experience with limited infrastructure, with high-pressure gaseous storage on board. They're comfortable with it. They've crossed that hurdle. Hybrid drivers haven't done that yet.

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

We already hear of people saying, 'gee I like my hybrid but what's next. I want to go beyond gasoline.

Banks can offer significant time savings and convenience to small business people. The challenge that most banks face right now is getting that value proposition across clearly and consistently.

There's nothing wrong with getting paid, ... We have punk bands in our system, and they are very happy when they get a check.

The passing got better. Our focus is going to continue to be our passing. We need to be more accurate. We have a lot of growing and maturing to do. The good thing is we're young and going to just get better.

This bill boggles the mind. Brazen doesn't begin to describe it. The Louisiana delegation is using Katrina as an excuse to resurrect a laundry list of pork projects.

A dramatic gap is opening up between carriers that get it and those that are still struggling to make it easy on consumers. The 21st Century Insurance Web site is consistently good, which clearly means the people at 21st are working hard to make their site as good as it can be.

I'm concerned that there is going to be a run on the bank to get stuff done under the guise of Katrina.

It's passing the buck, literally. There are no profiles in courage in the Senate on this.

The Corps of Engineers and Congress are partners in crime. We have this process where the pork barrel dictates that we spread the money over the 535 mouths to feed that are Congress rather than putting our resources where it makes the most sense.

If you needed to talk (about) any family problems, any girlfriend problems or any football issues, his office was always open. His telephone line was always convenient.

They've hijacked the bill to spend money on their toys. You have the V-22, which isn't even ready for fielding and it's getting money in the supplemental.

Anything that isn't nailed down, they pick up and take home to their districts.

For an executive, a notebook isn't that portable. The BlackBerry is a truly portable device.

We sold out, ... The midrange scooters are gone.

We're going to work on serving tough and passing tough, things we've been doing in practice. We just need to bring it to the game.

It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.

We have a clear example here that earmarks caused harm. Because we siphoned off funds to go to parochial projects, we have put people in harm's way and exposed them to greater risk. Congress needs to put its house in order and target their funding to where there's the greatest need,

There's a lot of talk these days about the long tail , but not that many companies are getting artists paid, ... Our people are long tail and they get checks from us.

They're asking for a $40 billion blank check. It is a huge amount of money that would be essentially front-ended as appropriations, and then driven independent of Washington oversight.

Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.