We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.

Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.