Quotes by Earl Blumenauer

“I think this is an affirmation of the value of Public Broadcasting. I think its going to lead this week to hundreds of people changing their wills.”

“This bill is not an energy policy, ... It is a list of tax breaks and special interest favors that does not translate into a cohesive approach, which global realities demand for this country.”

“We were taking an agency that was maybe 1 percent dealing with homeland security and 99 percent disaster, and folding it into something where it could lose focus and resources, ... And that is whats happened.”

“a little scared by how fast theyre doing all this stuff because I dont think theres anybody in charge.”

“What would have happened if, last September, Hurricane Ivan had veered 40 miles to the west, devastating the city of New Orleans?”

“The city has always been at risk because of its low-lying location,”

“less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment.”

“you fail.”

“put the investment into transit and bike paths, into walking and buses, and allowing people to live downtown as well as just work and shop there.”

“Areas which are magnets to our creative class, ... are in communities that would have been gone if the old way of thinking had taken place.”

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.