Jennifer Granholm Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.”
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“Bill Ford is somebody who wants to move American auto industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.”
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“We honor the dead best by treating the living well.”
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“There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.”
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“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.”
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“If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.”
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“Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.”
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“America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.”
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“If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.”
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“Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.”
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“This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.”
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“We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.”
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“Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.”
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“Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.”
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“In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.”
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“With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.”
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“We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.”
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“There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.”
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“The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.”
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“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.”
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“The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.”
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“The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.”
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“So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.”
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“It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.”
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“I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.”
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“For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.”
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“Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs.”
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“When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.”
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“We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.”
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“Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.”
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