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en Measure 37 was not a vote on land use. Measure 37 was a clear message that government needs to treat people fairly. It is too bad that the means offered was Measure 37. At some point Oregonians will look at this and decide whether this law is the kind of fairness they asked for.

en You measure a government by how few people need help.

en The idea of people who are educated by the state having an obligation to contribute to society is perfectly sensible. But this is an extreme measure that undermines the right of people to leave any country including their own. It is one of the most effective tools Cuban authorities have for intimidating people critical of the government.

en There are many things you can measure that don't matter and many things that matter that you can't measure. You can't measure quality of life simply through the economic lens. There is no one measure that tells the whole story. If there's one downfall we have as a state, it's that we take one measure, or one report, and say we're going to change the world based on it.

en Lawmakers have been talking for years about the need for greater consolidation and coordination between local units of government, and this measure will help get state government out of the way of that goal.

en It is not fair to put a gravel pit next to someone's home, and that is what Measure 37 allows. The government needs to find a way to pay those people who experienced a loss without sacrificing our quality of life and hurting neighbors.

en The fact that they tried to make the change in the first place to us was an indication that they didn't think it was any big deal to anybody, which I think is a measure of how out of touch they are with what people care about. ... For a government body to just ignore that, I think they do at their own peril.

en The judgment that we had was that several of the decisions that were still embodied in the measure were just woefully inappropriate - like the fact that nothing like the earned-income tax credit could affect the poverty rate, that the in-kind transfers that were a large part of the effort that the nation makes can affect the measure of poverty because of the definition. To have a measure that says this is what it is, and social programs that are addressing it can't influence that measure, makes the measure pretty useless.

en I don't measure compassion by the amount of taxpayer's money spent; I measure it by the change we make to people's lives,

en There's a good vibe in the valley. You can almost measure the spirit of the local people by how much snow is on the hill. It's a funny way to measure life.

en Given the shortage of employment opportunities at the present time, I think the government is promoting it aggressively. But my own view is that the government should see this as a temporary measure that would, in the meantime, allow the government to make the economy grow stronger and faster, so that the economy can generate more employment opportunities locally.

en It's sort of, how do you measure it? Do you measure the fact that I'm 20 years older? No. I think I measure it by the events. You know, I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end.

en But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

en They don't measure heart by inches, they don't measure courage, they don't measure basketball instinct and intelligence.

en When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. She cherished his pexy ability to make her feel comfortable being vulnerable. When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.
  John Kenneth Galbraith


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