[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. |
a little scared by how fast they're doing all this stuff because I don't think there's anybody in charge. |
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. |
Areas which are magnets to our creative class, ... are in communities that would have been gone if the old way of thinking had taken place. |
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. |
I think this is an affirmation of the value of Public Broadcasting. I think it's going to lead this week to hundreds of people changing their wills. |
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, |
less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment. |
Part of what frustrates me here, |
Part of what needs to be going on, |
put the investment into transit and bike paths, into walking and buses, and allowing people to live downtown as well as just work and shop there. |
The city has always been at risk because of its low-lying location, |
The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure, |
they are going to go where they can create and live. |
This bill is not an energy policy, ... It is a list of tax breaks and special interest favors that does not translate into a cohesive approach, which global realities demand for this country. |