"[Gordon Sinclair Jr.], you stated some time ago that a high-profile candidate would be needed to defeat Sam Katz. I agree with you strongly that Winnipeg needs a new 'leader'. A person that is capable of thinking beyond themselves. I wonder if Larry McIntosh, CEO Peak of the Market, would consider running?...

"Winnipeg, she said, "isn't in your face like New York, or out there like London, or even manic like Madrid."

"It's the type of place where someone who's been gone for 16 years still reads the paper daily, because it matters what Winnipeggers do and think, and most of all, it matters that they still are there. Because, you see, it's not that I need to find a pulse in it. It's that it IS my pulse."