If you come here in 15 years, … the places you’ll want to go will be the places that managed it right. Some will and some won’t.

The income base of the state as a whole is growing fairly well.

It’s hard. It’s a tough world. The cost crunches for a business are health care and those other extras that we work for,

Companies try to be mean and tight from a staffing perspective,

[Workers] are gravitating toward places of their choosing, … Twenty years ago I’d say, ‘I can’t eat the scenery.’ Today I can.

A lot of people and businesses want to be located in small towns. And for a long time, they really couldn’t do that. They had to be close to where the action was.

It was one of his real joys. He was constantly working towards protecting them.