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The way the consent decree is currently written, thousands of black farmers will not be able to receive their fair due compensation for the simple fact the they don`t have the information,

- John Boyd

We had a contract that was performance-based with guarantees to allow the commission to meet the consent decree. They (USF) said there would be zero overflows. They failed to have a design to produce zero overflows.

- Robert Tucker

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

- Alexander Henry

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

- Alexander Henry

The earth with its store of wonders untold,/ Almighty! thy power hath founded of old; / Hath `stablished it fast by a changeless decree, / And round it hath cast like a mantle the sea.

- B.D. Evans

not to issue an (emergency) decree in this kind of situation.

- Barbara Lyons