194 Quotes by Jennifer Granholm

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.

Today in America we are no more ‘post-racial’ than we are ‘post-partisan.’ We have a long way to go.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

In five years, you’re going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan’s transformed economy.

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.