Top 25 Ed Rendell Quotes

Growing Greener doesn’t produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

I love the concept of community energy.

I think if we’re going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

I hate negative ads in general.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It’s not renewable.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It’s rule one.

Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.

I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren’t pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

Under the law, the government, whether it’s state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that’s something we should get together on.

One of the things that people don’t realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

I normally don’t endorse in Democratic primaries.

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches – which you heard in the primary campaign – that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

I’ve always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.