Top 96 Granholm's Quotes

#1. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #14716
#2. This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #91152
#3. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #119028
#4. If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #122314
#5. Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #124759
#6. California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #124829
#7. What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for all these children in Kalamazoo public schools who can now go to college and chase their dreams.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #132482
#8. I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #137327
#9. I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #139250
#10. Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #154272
#11. It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #168022
#12. Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #176964
#13. A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #183438
#14. When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #215209
#15. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #216397
#16. Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts ... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #219874
#17. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #235670
#18. How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #263304
#19. Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #292679
#20. I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #302102
#21. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #381120
#22. As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #429316
#23. Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #454755
#24. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #481843
#25. I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #490899
#26. Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #517790
#27. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #553298
#28. Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #557214
#29. I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #557243
#30. Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #688759
#31. To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #722506
#32. The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #730101
#33. We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #799037
#34. I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #799394
#35. We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #884777
#36. Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #900128
#37. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #903305
#38. When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #930647
#39. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #973994
#40. Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #977954
#41. We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1011251
#42. Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1049713
#43. Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1066001
#44. America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1068650
#45. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1084792
#46. We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1123031
#47. Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1123391
#48. Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1127729
#49. Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1134965
#50. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1177143
#51. I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1183811
#52. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1187867
#53. Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1200009
#54. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1225929
#55. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1254863
#56. I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1263214
#57. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1274309
#58. California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1310559
#59. Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1320558
#60. There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1356615
#61. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1364602
#62. I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1377279
#63. Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1388515
#64. We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1399918
#65. Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1403472
#66. I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1429414
#67. In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1439314
#68. There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1443701
#69. If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1461831
#70. Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1464032
#71. I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1475467
#72. We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1489291
#73. From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1514187
#74. During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Tim Walberg

Granholm's Quotes #1524363
#75. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1534034
#76. I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1535396
#77. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1569701
#78. We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1645793
#79. Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1661314
#80. Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1664247
#81. If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1666316
#82. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1667573
#83. The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1690514
#84. As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1709839
#85. I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

Jennifer Granholm

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#86. Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

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#87. We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1755366
#88. With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1764076
#89. We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1784361
#90. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1810582
#91. Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.

Jennifer Granholm

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#92. The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1836109
#93. That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

Jennifer Granholm

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#94. Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1840136
#95. 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.

Jennifer Granholm

Granholm's Quotes #1847507
#96. Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

Jennifer Granholm

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