“What we're talking about is allowing the Port to take a leadership position, and bring the parties to the table, ... We're going to have to come up with some kind of consensus.”
“I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.”
“We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.”
“We have been battling since the very first day of the project to build this job with the documents that were put in front of us. It was just impossible.”
“Then, in 1978, I tried out for a role in a real play -- 'Short Eyes' at the Seattle Group Theatre. I got a bit part, a prison guard, with one line: 'On the gate!' ”