Ed Rendell Quotes

• We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

  Ed Rendell

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

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in People, Administration

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

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  Tags in Creating

• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There’s absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it’s produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

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• We’ve been working our tail off and lead by that example.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Working

• We will not lose this election for lack of money.

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• Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

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• There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

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• 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.

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• Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Community

• 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.

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• If I lose, I lose. I’ll do it on my terms.

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• I’m interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

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  Topics in Business, Opportunity

• 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.

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  Tags in Improvement

• 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.

  Ed Rendell

  Topics in Politics, Success

  Tags in Obama

• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Primary, Campaign

Ed Rendell (25)

Birth:	5th January, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell was born in New York City, New York. He is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 45th Governor of Pennsylvania, from 2003 to 2011. Rendell, a member of the Democratic Party, served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000. He was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia for two terms from 1978 through 1986. He served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 presidential election. He served as the Chairman of the National Governors Association. He earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

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