194 Quotes by Jennifer Granholm

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 It’s just such an old, outdated conversation.

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.

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.

We’re on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

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?