Element Quotes

(The money) would allow us to enhance our current patrols and would create deterrence. If we can deter the criminal element from committing these crimes, we can enhance the quality of life. - Maj. Leon Wilmot

(The course) is about race and American society... What I want to do is bring all these issues that this Hurricane Katrina debate has brought forward - I want to bring them out. I want to talk about affirmative action, crime and punishment, schools and the test score cap, urban politics and the history of the civil rights movement, and try to bring all these different elements together in a contemporary course. - Glenn Loury

(Even) when I've got the elements against me, my breaking ball still had bite late in the game, and I was still able to spot the fastball. I feel like I'm getting there. - Bobby Bell

$11 billion of the $18 billion drop in inventories was in manufacturing, and there's an element of that which isn't a matter of U.S. factories humming along [to re-stock shelves]. In many cases, there simply isn't any U.S. factory any more, and some of this may be just a permanent reduction in inventories. - David Kelly