David Ige Quotes

David Ige

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 15, 1957

When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.

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I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.

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It's time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities.

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I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.

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It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

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I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.

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I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.

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I've always been one to believe in leading by example - the state has a lot of land and assets along the transit route, so I think we ought to be looking at what plans we can make available.

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We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

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I think that we're trying to look at all of our assets and figure out what's the best use and where we need to make investments in infrastructure to enable the projects that we want.

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I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

David Ige