Quotes from Ted Wheeler

If you intend to use our beautiful city to cause mayhem, disturb the peace, create fear and commit violence, you are not welcome here.

Why are these things happening in Portland? In part, it's because we are a progressive community. Groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys... they come from the outside. They come here because they know that their message is not necessarily welcomed here. They're trying to provoke a reaction.

The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.

I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.

This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump's White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging poll data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.

My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.

I'm ready to fight, and I'm ready to make sure progressive includes progress.

My job is to protect the safety of everyone... protesters, counter-protesters, and bystanders alike.

Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.

Portland has a proud history of protest.

The police should be addressing car break-ins and burglaries and things like that. And increasingly what they're doing is providing social services. The majority of police are not trained in the provision of social services.

In order to do the right thing and to provide the right long-term view for the city, it might mean you're only in politics for a little while.

If you know me, you know I mutter quite a bit. Not one of my most redeeming qualities.

The changing climate is pushing already vulnerable communities into crisis situations. Children with asthma are forced to miss school and stay inside due to poor air quality. Day laborers and construction workers must work outside in dangerous temperatures. People without homes are unable to escape the impacts of hotter summers and wetter winters.

Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.

I certainly didn't see the mayor's withdrawal coming. I was looking for a highly contested mayoral campaign.

The world's attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families' health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.

The porridge is either two hot or too cold. At any given moment in this city the police are being criticized for being heavy handed and intervening too quickly, or they're being criticized for being standoffish and not intervening quickly enough.

Portland is an amazing and awe-inspiring city. It's a city we cherish for its beauty. A city we love for its tolerance.

There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.

It is the mayor's job to be the glue that holds everybody together.

There is definitely a balance that I have to strike both in terms of supporting the Police Bureau - making sure they have the tools and the resources they need to do their jobs effectively. But I also have an important role to play when it comes to oversight and accountability.

I'm going to rely upon the advice of affordable housing experts to make sure we meet the public's expectations.

Funding to replace crumbling infrastructure has always been hard to come by.