Joseph Morelle actually said...

"Whenever I am at a table and people say 'let's get some quick wins,' to me, what that says is 'let's do the easiest thing so we can show everybody that we are doing things.'"

"Well, and I won't bore you with my long seminar on how we should better integrate social, health, and educational, and governmental services just in general, absent a natural disaster, but--and Ms. Te..."

"I used to say there is no real manual, locally, on what we do in the middle of this, so we are just making it up, sort of building the airplane as we are flying it."

"I think there was an old TV commercial, 'You can pay me now or pay me later.' So I appreciate that."