People are being thrown out like yesterday's newspaper. It's frustrating to see this happen . . . The forest industry is melting itself down into an export business by shutting down mills.

We are losing thousands of jobs at the cost of one-third more money for the logs.

It's a failed policy. Basically, we gave corporations everything they asked for without a struggle . . . I find it totally outrageous when the government says we have too much capacity (mills) and then signs off on raw-log exports.

I didn't kill innocent people.

My people on my side asked me to take this step, and I've done so reluctantly, ... As governor, I have to protect the people I represent.

The essence of our argument is the people who did these things ... prior to the enactment of the ordinance are grandfathered in, ... The ordinance is trying to come in and make things criminalized after the fact, and you can't do that.