The Texas Transportation Institute estimates Portland has 20 percent less congestion than it would otherwise.

Public transportation creates 19 percent more jobs per dollar invested than road projects do.

Together, this substantial investment in transit coupled with transit-oriented development will lower vehicle miles traveled.

We can't address our dependence on foreign oil without reducing oil consumption in the transportation sector.

Oregon has a tremendous amount, millions of acres, of second growth forest that is overgrown.

Total carbon emissions in Portland are below the 1990 levels.

We need to finally provide the Federal Transit Administration with the resources it needs to meet local demand.

We will continue to spend $1 billion to $2 billion or more every day overseas rather than spending it here in the United States on clean energy.

Certainly, that carbon dioxide is an issue for our atmosphere.

Pursuing strategies to increase fuel efficiency and cleaning our fuel mix alone will result in failure.

Public transit is a core climate solution, but it is also a core energy solution.

I really look forward to working with both of you on this because currently we have viewed our forests as a source of dimensional lumber.

It would be tremendous for the health of our forests, certainly for our ecosystems, for the impact on carbon dioxide in the air and the strength of our forest communities.

This bill, obviously, is going to be very important to Oregon as to the other 50 States.

I would like to praise the plan that you put forward, and three things that I had been advocating for were in the plan.

I think I have a ways to go to see the Fed as the right place to set capital adequacy rules.

I will try to dive into it a little more and follow up with your team, and thank you very much.

From Oregon's perspective, you all constitute the livability dream team.

The fact that a dietician can be as important as a heart surgeon, that a social worker working to prevent a re-admission, a second heart attack, might be as important as the medical care inside the hospital.

Sometimes I feel like we lose common sense along the way.

I have always been curious as to why all these bills pending in the Congress or about to be introduced haven't included funding for a public education campaign frankly along the lines that John F. Kennedy had in terms of educating people…

Senator, there are other countries that address this issue through basic public health programs.

I think there is a need to reexamine the financing of homeownership in the country.

My support for the second half of the TARP was contingent upon a big chunk of it going to mortgage modification.

If we want to promote homeownership and promote wealth creation in the United States among the public, I think there has to be much more attention given to the structures of those loans.