“I didn't get into politics so that I could take little bites around th...” — Ted Wheeler Quote

“I didn't get into politics so that I could take little bites around the edges.”

“If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.”

“I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.”

“Politics is a contact sport, and certainly heads butt from time to time.”

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.”