“The individual companies have been doing several things to be part of the solution and there was an agreement among all of our leadership that we needed to take another step and take it as an industry.”
“You had a platform at the White House. Whenever you called a meeting at the White House, the other agencies came. Now we're over at the department and the agencies didn't come; they came up with all sorts of excuses.”
“We started from the notion that we're always going to be looking for ways to bring things together. Anybody from the leadership team who embraced that notion was part of the inner circle.”
“We believe this complex problem would be more effectively addressed by educating students on the importance of living a balanced lifestyle, ... Not by imposing unnecessary restrictions mandated by SB965.”
“The trial lawyers' arguments against the beverage industry don't add up. If child consumption of full-calorie soft drinks in schools is going down while childhood obesity may be going up, it doesn't make sense to single out sodas in schools as the cause for weight problems.”
“I don't think anyone should underestimate the influence this agreement will have. I think other people are going to want to follow this agreement because it just makes sense.”
