John Kitzhaber

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

— John Kitzhaber

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

— John Kitzhaber

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

— John Kitzhaber

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

— John Kitzhaber

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid 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…

— John Kitzhaber