Steve Miskin Quotations

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

We actually are at the beginning stages of not using outside counsel as much. We're planning to use in-house more often.

Every single bill that a legislator introduces is important to somebody. It might not be important to you or your neighbor or your mother, but it might be important to your doctor or your plumber or your sister.

There is no intent to sneak a pay raise back in.

As we put together this year's budget, we'll probably be taking a closer look at that.

The feeling is that the issues surrounding the building ... have been pretty well publicly aired and they're basically resolving themselves. So it really doesn't seem the need to run that resolution exists any longer.

The huge difference is that this budget is more reality-based.

That's one of the issues why the House was fighting for more.

Health care costs have skyrocketed. A lot of costs have been rising.