Words matter. These are the best Ted Wheeler Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I didn’t get into politics so that I could take little bites around the edges.
Portland took the lead on climate action more than 25 years ago when we became the first U.S. city to adopt a climate action plan.
While it’s generally easier to stay the course, it’s a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.
Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so at the jeopardy of the economy.
I have been humbled by my first two weeks in office.
The City of Portland, our police bureau, and our employees do not cooperate with ICE.
I said I wanted to lay the foundation for my governance and that included building relations with the City Council, with bureau directors, making sure we had the right leaders in place, making sure we’re communicating with community groups that have an interest in of policymaking. I feel that we did that.
I want to be clear: We can address safety and livability issues head-on without criminalizing homelessness. After all, people living on our streets are themselves vulnerable to crime and other hazards.
As we double down on urgent issues of housing affordability, access, inequities and displacement, we must prioritize addressing climate change.
I am mindful of my responsibilities as state treasurer, and I will not shirk those responsibilities.
There’s no question that, in nearly seven weeks of nightly demonstrations, the police have done many things right, and they’ve done some things wrong as well.
I’m ready to fight, and I’m ready to make sure progressive includes progress.
If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.
Mike Marshman is a quality choice to fill the role of Portland Police Chief.
The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent. People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process. They don’t even know who’s pulling them into the vans.
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.
Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state.
I believe we should take steps to ensure that travel is not only cost effective, but also in line with what the public expects from public employees during challenging economic times.
We’re going to send a unified message to the rest of this country, which is that we do not accept violence in this community. If you are thinking of coming to Portland, Oregon, to engage in acts of violence, we don’t want you.
Clean energy provides a unique opportunity in rural and urban communities alike by training Oregonians with new skills for projects that must be built in our communities and can’t be outsourced.
Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.
My residents don’t know who a federal officer is or a local police officer or a county deputy or a state patroller. They don’t know, and they don’t care. It’s all the same to them.
It’s the job of the president to ensure the protection of liberty in the United States of America.
When Oregon was founded as a state in 1857, its constitution explicitly banned Black people from visiting, living and owning property here.
There’s some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don’t tolerate violence on our streets.
I am dedicated to ensuring that the prosperity our city is experiencing extends to everyone who lives, works and visits Portland.
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That’s not where my job is. My job is in the community.
As mayor I don’t intend to be just a voice for Portland. I intend to be a voice for urban America.
This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump’s White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging poll data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.
The world’s attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families’ health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.
The porridge is either two hot or too cold. At any given moment in this city the police are being criticized for being heavy handed and intervening too quickly, or they’re being criticized for being standoffish and not intervening quickly enough.
We can’t simply dismiss the idea that autonomous vehicles are going to be a big part of our transportation system.
My privilege as a white man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community I believe shielded me from time to time from the many difficult and uncomfortable truths about our history and about our society.
Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we’re proud of protecting those core American values.
I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.
My job is to protect the safety of everyone… protesters, counter-protesters, and bystanders alike.
It is the mayor’s job to be the glue that holds everybody together.
Portland is an amazing and awe-inspiring city. It’s a city we cherish for its beauty. A city we love for its tolerance.
Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting, and damaging public and private property.
Violence is not and has never been a legitimate means to a political end.
As Oregonians, we share a deep optimism for a better future. From the time of the Oregon Trail, we have understood that a better future won’t just happen by accident or by sticking with the status quo.
The trading mechanism proposed in Clean Energy Jobs is based upon sound free-market principles. It will allow emitters to find the most cost-effective ways to meet emissions reduction goals.
From Portland’s ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon’s Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our local actions send ripples through the energy landscape nationwide.
If you can’t create a world-class university, why not invite one in?
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.
I get up in the morning and by the time I’ve gone to bed there’s three or four or five new crises that weren’t there when I started the day. That’s what being mayor of Portland is about.
We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But we’re never going to solve homelessness – not here in Portland, not here in any major city in America – if we keep assuming that it is purely a local issue.
I don’t even recognize myself sometimes.
Yes, Portland is governable. Yes, it’s challenging.
It sends the wrong message to participate in hosted golf and other entertainment activities while thousands of Oregonians face foreclosure, unemployment or are simply struggling.
Is Portland worse off than other cities? Is Portland really ‘Tent City U.S.A.?’ I want to be clear: The answer is no. While the homeless situation in Portland is significant and unacceptable, it is not unique.
We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our planet.
There is a national climate here. We’re seeing a rise in hate speech, in intolerance, in racism, in division.
My fight isn’t with Charlie Hales. My fight is with the problems he has failed to address as mayor.
I think it is extremely inappropriate for people to be blocking traffic, to be harassing people going about their everyday business and violating the law. I do not support that kind of behavior.
