Avery Brundage Quotes

I probably would rather be known for leaving a major park system in San Antonio,

sophisticated things that the industry really needs, and that we don`t have. We`re not an industrial town, we haven`t done much of that sort of thing. We don`t have enough people that know how to do those things, and consequently we are losing jobs and subsequently we`re losing business.

there`s probably been a bit of racism since the first time one person looked at another person that didn`t look like them.

It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.

or at least give us the money to do it.

Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they`re never going to get along.

I`d love to build in the feeling of early San Antonio, which was an oasis, which was why everybody came here. Urbanization has to some degree wiped that out ... we`ve been cutting trees and putting cement everywhere we can since then.

And clearly there are people with racist thoughts,

Whatever we need to do, we`re going to do, ... We`re not going to wait for federal dollars to come in, we`re going to write whatever checks that need to be written right now.

He`s making noise about the budget because it`s big, ... If you equate the words `big` and `wasteful,` then he`s right. But big doesn`t mean wasteful, necessarily. The questions I would ask is, Do you have enough money coming in to meet the needs of the budget you`re drawing up? The answer to that is, Clearly yes, we do. As long as we can meet legitimate needs, keep soundly in the black, and not raise taxes, that`s what we need to do.