"I hope you would join me--and this is a State matter--in trying to get the sales tax that is generated by building... allocated to the city where the building takes place."
"Homelessness is the number one problem I hear about. The Federal Government has to do more as far as resources."
"We pass a lot of laws in Congress, we repeal some, but we cannot repeal the law of supply and demand."
"Have you tried raising the wages?"
"The rents are too damn high, but also the wages are too damn low."
"It is not that these fees will be passed on to the consumer. It is that the building won't be built, and then everybody will pay a higher rent because the supply of units will be down while the demand..."
"we have to do everything possible to build more housing, and the more affordable that housing is, the better."
"this would all be unnecessary if your husband was released"
"Duterte has used his war on drugs to justify rampant human rights abuses including these what he calls extrajudicial killings and the imprisonment of opposition figures."
"I remain deeply, deeply troubled by reports of serious human rights abuses in the Philippines, and Vietnam in particular, and by ongoing genocide, genocide against Rohingya Muslims."
"let us hope that the Vietnamese Government understands the importance to the United States of treating Michael fairly according to human law and due process"