37 Quotes by Earl Blumenauer

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,

What would have happened if, last September, Hurricane Ivan had veered 40 miles to the west, devastating the city of New Orleans?

Part of what needs to be going on,

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.

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.

We were taking an agency that was maybe 1 percent dealing with homeland security and 99 percent disaster, and folding it into something where it could lose focus and resources, ... And that is what's happened.

The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure,

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.

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.