17 Quotes by Ed Rendell
- 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 think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
- Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
- 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.
- There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
- Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
- 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.
- Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
- 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.
- We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
- I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
- We will not lose this election for lack of money.
- If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
- If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
- 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.
- 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.
- But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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