Julia Patterson Quotations

There is an element of fear that I detect in people's voices when they talk about this issue. That is alarming.

We're going to change the culture in King County.

The same arguments were made 40 years ago. It wasn't right to discriminate based on race, and it isn't right to discriminate based on gender identity. It's not right and it's cruel.

There's no reason in the world why those individuals should be less healthy intrinsically.

Taxes would be from just two sources. We understand there's a limit to the taxes people are willing to pay and we've tried to make this as understandable as possible, but people understand we have to get these projects under way.

It's something we need to talk about in our community, governments and private businesses.