A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him read more

A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him the silent treatment and ignore him. I had an idea that it might be coming.

Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the read more

Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.

It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about read more

It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about the problems in scheduling, but we try not to make a big deal of it. It's something we don't talk about.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been read more

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.

We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to read more

We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.

When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you read more

When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.

So long as he wears the name tags.

So long as he wears the name tags.

It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death read more

It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.