Political Quotes

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

Last year, the Environment and Public Works Committee held, I think, not one, but a couple of hearings on permitting, common theme at our hearings, on the importance of public engagement.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

I usually default to the golden rule, and I think in this case it's a pretty good guide as well.