Famous quotes by Steve Mitchell:

"It's a very similar process to a university or hospital being accredited. It's a thorough process and normally a department spends about two or three years doing self-assessment making sure it meets the rigorous standards required by CALEA."

"[Still, a Detroit News poll out this morning shows Kerry has opened up a 5-point lead among likely voters in Michigan. That's technically within the survey's margin of error,] but it certainly looks good for John Kerry in Michigan, ... none of the above."

"He has a ways to go (to equal SLM Big Daddy), but they're a lot alike, ... Don has said the older he gets, the more he reminds him of 'Big Daddy' - temperament, they're all business. This one's a little more lovable."

"I think what the mayor has been able to do since June is focus on the record, why they elected him in the first place."

"To be quite honest, I haven't really been paying attention."

"Our view was, more power to you, ... If he got resistance, he didn't get it from us. I wish I had known about the trouble he had. I wish he were still here. Essentially, we just said 'bless his heart.'"

"There's also new mines we're looking at bringing on in Sudbury."

"Clearly the governor has got some real serious problems."

"As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people."

"The mayor could care less about what people outside of Detroit think about him now,"