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“If it was two white guys that were nominees, that would be one thing. But we’re going to make history out of this election.”
— Tom Clark, executive vice president of the Denver Metro Economic Development Corp. on why he’s confident the Democratic National Convention will bring in the predicted $160 million to Denver’s economy, in the Denver Business Journal
Basker
“I really do not believe you can succeed in the event industry unless you are willing to commit to the project, no matter how much work is involved, and have a passion for it.”
— Cynthia Basker, president of South Bend, Ind.-based Celebrated Events
“On the event side it’s a little easier, it’s just a question of whether those people want to bring their skill set to the magazine world.”
— David Arnold, group publisher for CurtCo, on the growing importance of events in the publishing world, in Folio: magazine
“So many conferences simply give attendees multiple perspectives and sales pitches without teaching them how to take what they’ve learned and apply it in a practical sense when they get back to the office.”
— David F. Giannetto, the director of Cohn Consulting Group’s Enterprise Performance Management Practice
Villaverde
“Even third-tier cities have convention centers now — I mean, my goodness, Lakeland, Fla., has one.”
— Alan Villaverde, general manager for Memphis, Tenn.-based Peabody Hotel Group, in the Orlando Business Journal
“There’s an enormous emergence of ability and ambition. But I think it will also take the country a number of years to really figure out where they want to go.”
— Architect Ole Scheeren on China’s ascendance in the world of design
Pelosi
“We are ensuring that this convention will be the greenest, most sustainable, most successful political convention in history.”
— Nancy Pelosi, house speaker and permanent convention chair for the Democratic National Convention Committee, on the environmental sustainability of the 2008 convention