Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

I have to reinvent myself.

If words are the truth, what is living for?

Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.

It's better to lose something than never to have had

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.