100 Quotes by Ted Wheeler

Imagine a safe city with all the affordable housing we need, a city that uses its resources to help lift the marginalized up and into stability. This is the Portland I imagine. This is the Portland I dream about every single day.

Homelessness is an umbrella term for a lot of different problems that need separate solutions.

Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.

We can't simply dismiss the idea that autonomous vehicles are going to be a big part of our transportation system.

If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they're going to be sorely disappointed and that's just the truth.

We don't know what the trajectory of autonomous or linked vehicles will be, and we don't have a clear understanding on what that means in terms of infrastructure and policy. But we know it's coming.

The City of Portland, our police bureau, and our employees do not cooperate with ICE.

My goal is to always be a transformational leader, and to go big. And when you go big, you don't always win. And I'm OK with that.