John Kitzhaber quotes:

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

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.

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.