“I have been here over 20 years, and every year we get calls about fireworks. We will go out and issue citations and confiscate fireworks.”
Carl Duke
“This year we want to make it the biggest, most spectacular fireworks celebration that we've ever had.”
Jeff Rainey
“Beijing people only do two things for Lunar New Year - cook good food and light fireworks. When fireworks were banned, it took the atmosphere out of it. All these things about safety and the environment - don't worry about it. Give people some fun.”
Dai Qiansheng
“Every year we see needless and preventable injuries from fireworks,”
Jonathan Jackson
“You may be a redneck if . . . your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.”
Jeff Foxworthy
“Unfortunately, this clandestine kind of selling of fireworks is very difficult to control,”
Carlos Ortiz
“It's part of tradition to have fireworks for July Fourth and New Year's, so it's just really difficult to get people to stop using fireworks.”
Randy Jenkins