John Kitzhaber Quotes

#1. States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

John Kitzhaber

#2. We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

Mahmoud Abbas

#3. The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.

John Kitzhaber

#4. Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

Warren Rudman

#5. I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

Will Ferrell

#6. If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

John Kitzhaber

#7. I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

John Kitzhaber

#8. I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

John Kitzhaber

#9. As I was about to open the street door, Sally laid her hand on my shoulder, and said, "Linda, is you gwine all

Harriet Jacobs

#10. First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

John Kitzhaber

#11. You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste ... food stamps or decry dependency.

Frank Wolf