106 Quotes by Jay Inslee

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

This is a gross and disturbing violation of the commitment to keep water healthy in the straits and Puget Sound.

Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy – most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There’s really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.

We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They’re not going to live in poverty.

President Bush’s proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we’re buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I’m not sure we should say that’s evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don’t have a huge objection to that.