Jay Inslee

The virus of deception about our organs of democracy, there's two viruses: one is a virus of COVID and one is falsity.

There has been a profoundly different approach to this whole pandemic, you know, based on whether you're red or blue.

We're now at about 80 percent. This is pivotal because 80 percent of the people that are in our hospitals are the unvaccinated.

People talk about freedom? I think Americans should have freedom not to be infected by their coworker, or infected by their student, their fellow student.

We believe that we saved perhaps 17,000 lives because of following these policies.

The best way we could possibly reopen our economy is to knock down the virus.

We made a valued decision that saving lives was our first priority, and it should remain unwavering.

We did decide to follow science and the data and our public health experts, and to be very vocal against the profoundly malicious efforts to not spread the truth about this vaccine that had been so damaging.

We started this with no template. We didn't get to, you know, cadge ideas from Colorado or anywhere else. We were the first.

It's a joy to be here. It's a joy to be with my old colleagues.

The American psyche has not recognized we were one vice president away from a coup.

We do not want to go that route. Instead, we want to use these scientifically credible tools, one of which is mask.

Masks work. They cut the rate of transmission. This has been a very well-established fact.

Science works and it’s worked for us. We’ve had probably the fourth lowest per capita death rate in our state because we have followed science.

These are common-sense measures. They might be the strictest, but I see Oregon has now joined us on these.

It would be the height of irresponsibility not to use both of those tools to protect our children.

This is our last chance for our species to save ourselves. We got to get this job done this year in Congress.

We need a real climate bill that has to come through reconciliation. And we need to both move together.

The vast majority of the climate related issues were stripped out of the bill and infrastructure. Unfortunately, because Republicans still can’t get over their refusal to recognize the necessity of action on climate.

I am proud of the people that are being loud and proud right now that are insisting that this be in the reconciliation package.

Look, having a 'infrastructure bill' in 2021, that ignores climate change is like having a, you know, infrastructure bill that ignores canals in 1860.

The most important issue in America today is our ability for Congress to pass robust, comprehensive, aggressive climate change legislation which won’t happen unless we get this reconciliation bill through.

We know these are very serious allegations. The number of them are most concerning.

We want this to be a win-win.

I thought Joe Biden's speech was so refreshing because it really did speak to all Americans, not just to his base.