“One things that bothers me about Rhode Island, is we have this attitude that the grass is always greener on the other side of the street. That’s not so.”
GOV. LINCOLN C. ALMOND, Oct. 2, 1995
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“Did I throw a small plastic orange juice container at someone? If I had wanted to hit him, I would have hit him. … Someone hired an employee without authorization. Ninety-nine of 100 people would have responded more angrily than I did.”
PAUL KAZARIAN, recently fired CEO of Sunbeam-Oster, on allegations of “bizarre behavior” prior to his dismissal, Jan. 25, 1993
“We have brought this planet to an environmentally unsafe level, and we are just beginning to be aware of it.”
DOMENIC BUCCI president of the Rhode Island Solar Energy Association, May 25, 1992
“There has been a lot of progress. … But now we need to go to the next level.”
Delano Joseph Brooks, corporate affirmative action manager for Gilbane Building Co., on equal opportunities for minority business owners, Aug. 16, 1993
“You do things for the community, not because it gets you ahead or so you can brag about it. You do them for the feeling of putting something back into the community that’s nourished your business.”
TED LEACH, president of Leach & Garner Co., jewelry findings manufacturer, Dec. 13, 1993
“Chronologically it’s important I suppose for the record to know how old you are. I’m not old. I’m not young. I was born in 1911, you take it from there.”
FREDERICK R. GLASSMAN, retired, Aug. 21, 1995
“There is a glass ceiling out there. … Not only are women somewhat prohibited from getting to the higher echelon of management, but they’re buttressed by a maternal wall because they’re perceived as being on a Mommy track.”
DEBORAH A. CARREAU, chief financial officer, The Holson Burges Group, July 3, 1995
