Businessman and former Detroit Piston Dave Bing – speaking to the The Detroit Free Press about the Kwame Kilpatrick scandal’s effect on the City of Detroit, in an interview concerning Bing’s possible mayoral run:

“I don’t think we can prejudge the legality of what the mayor is going through,” Bing said. “But whether he’s guilty or innocent is not the issue to me right now. It’s the harm that’s being placed upon the citizens. And I don’t think anybody can deflect that. I just think some kind of way, the political leadership, the business leadership, the educational leadership have all got to sit down at the table and figure out a model that works for everybody, and tough decisions have got to be made. We are not going to be the city that we were 10, 20 years ago.”