John Kitzhaber Quotations

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

We're challenging the underlying structure of the U.S. health system.

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

There have been people talking to me about it unsolicited,

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

It would take an awful lot to make me believe that I could do more good for the world Logan (his 7-year-old son) will inherit with another four years as governor rather than with what I'm doing privately.

The Stateline project is just the sort of sustainable solution we need for the region's energy shortage,

not that California is not doing enough. People outside the region do not appreciate what California is doing.

It's vital we be ready with additional firefighters should the need arise,

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.

The uninsured are the symptom of the problem.

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.

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

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.