Ted Wheeler : (3)

" The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent. People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process. They don’t even know who’s pulling them into the vans. " - Ted Wheeler

" My goal is to always be a transformational leader, and to go big. And when you go big, you don’t always win. And I’m OK with that. " - Ted Wheeler

" My privilege as a white man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community I believe shielded me from time to time from the many difficult and uncomfortable truths about our history and about our society. " - Ted Wheeler