106 Quotes by Jay Inslee

People do not pay their taxes for Uncle Sam to burn down neighborhoods.

The Bush administration's callous reference to this simply as a 'California problem' with no short-term solution threatens not only consumers in the West but the entire U.S. economy,

There's been a dramatic change in climate since before Christmas. It's shifted people. Some majority-party members are thinking twice about this bill.

It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work.

I found your study to be critical ... and there is evidence that logging may have some consequences we may not fully understand.

High-tech and biotech firms that effectively attract and retain venture capital should not be excluded from the SBIR program simply because the nature of their research requires large sums of investment.

I fear that the days are soon upon us where we will see daily reports of exotic, unnecessary and grossly overpriced purchases of goods and services under the guise of providing hurricane relief and recovery.

We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that will light the fires of innovation and make a game-changing shift in how we use and produce energy. And nothing less is adequate.

I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that's the nature of innovation, and that's why we should spread our bets; we should not put our eggs in any one basket. Some of these will be grand successes, some of them will be average, and some of them will be abject failures.