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Earl Blumenauer Quotes
«I am absolutely convinced, ... [that] in the course of the next ten years we have an amazing chance to reverse the direction of this country.»
«To the best of my knowledge, ... there is not city in America -- large or small -- where people who are at minimum wage can afford basic housing.»
«Any community needs to plan to be able to realize their vision, ... Things that some people think are amenities ... are, in fact, part of the basic infrastructure.»
«The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure,»
«Part of what frustrates me here,»
«they are going to go where they can create and live.»
«Part of what needs to be going on,»
«If all of a sudden once it leaves here, people have the opportunity to change it contrary to the intent of the federal sponsors, contrary to the desires of local government, I think is a very troubling precedent,»
«[Charging that we've had] a sense in Portland that we could do something about the future [and] that we were not just helpless and hapless, ... important for communities to think about who they are, what makes them significant, and what they want to do with it.»
«This is legislation not drafted in the long-term interests of the people it claims to help, seniors and taxpayers. It was drafted, first and foremost, for the drug companies.»