“We hope that this is finally the year that the House will stand up and join the Senate to give Missouri consumers and small businesses protections for not only cell phones, but for fax machines, too.”

“We're expecting a positive reaction, ... It's a win-win situation for the city, the residents of Indian Wells, the residents of the Coachella Valley and for us. We hope to have a positive resolution.”

“The market had high hopes for a bolder plan in terms of both restructuring and product strategy. Investors were looking for more specific measures, and disappointment seems to have set in.”

“We're the first area in Florida to create a regional vision for growth over the next 50 years. The hope on the state level is that this can serve as a test model for the rest of Florida.”

“We had high hopes for this semester with the core nine guys that we had. But based on the academic situation, it forces me to create a whole new offensive and defensive team.”

“It's rare that we get blindsided this way. In this era of Sarbanes-Oxley, governance is a front-burner issue. I just hope that the scandal doesn't become more widespread.”

“I was kind of hoping he was going to make a move. At the last second I saw he was going low blocker. I don't know. It was a pretty good shot.”

“I think defensively we will be pretty strong. We banked a lot on our defense last year. This year we hope to get over the hump with some hitting.”

“These are, we think, very important signs, perhaps, of an emergence. But we don't want to give false hope and we know that there is still a long way to go to making that recovery.”

“We're hoping it's going to be considerably more than that. But the main thing to remember . . . is it's not the actual number that's critical. It's the importance of these people's voices being heard.”