The voters of Hawaii have said loud and clear that it’s not money that wins elections. David Ige Read Quote
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. David Ige Read Quote
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. David Ige Read Quote
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. David Ige Read Quote
It’s about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say. David Ige Read Quote
I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law. David Ige Read Quote
It’s time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities. David Ige Read Quote
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. David Ige Read Quote
As leaders, our job is to engage people so that they will want to participate in this grand experience in self governance. David Ige Read Quote