States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

- John Kitzhaber

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage …

- John Kitzhaber

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult li…

- John Kitzhaber