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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. "
Ed Rendell
Care
System
People
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" I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up. "
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Truth
Tell
" I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries. "
Ed Rendell
Democratic
Normally
Endorse
" 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. "
Ed Rendell
Legal
Time
Think
" If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports. "
Ed Rendell
Time
Funny
Good
" If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff. "
Ed Rendell
Offer
Staff
I Am
" I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency. "
Ed Rendell
President
Dignity
Questions
" We will not lose this election for lack of money. "
Ed Rendell
Lose
Lack
Election
" 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
Leaving
Young
People
" I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races. "
Ed Rendell
Play
Think
Personality
" One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses. "
Ed Rendell
Everyone
Control
Without
" There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table. "
Ed Rendell
Table
Environmental
Issues
" I hate negative ads in general. "
Ed Rendell
General
Negative
Ads
" 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
You
Need
Think
" But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania. "
Ed Rendell
Away
Going
Keep
" If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms. "
Ed Rendell
Terms
Lose
" 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. "
Ed Rendell
Bond
Challenges
Environmental
" 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. "
Ed Rendell
Well
Construction
Back
" I am a fiscal conservative. "
Ed Rendell
Am
I Am
Conservative
" Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile. "
Ed Rendell
Think
Mile
Tax
" Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable. "
Ed Rendell
Like
Going
Go
" You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one. "
Ed Rendell
Never
You
Sure
" 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. "
Ed Rendell
Business
Community
Good
" It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country. "
Ed Rendell
Democrats
Year
Together
" Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means. "
Ed Rendell
Find
Way
Working
" Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth. "
Ed Rendell
Creating
Priority
Highest
" 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. "
Ed Rendell
People
Place
Politics
" Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs. "
Ed Rendell
Industry
Our
People
" Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. "
Ed Rendell
Money
Open
Space
" 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. "
Ed Rendell
Open
Tourism
Beautiful
" Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion. "
Ed Rendell
Influence
Happy
Law