We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.' — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
As governor of Washington, I've seen firsthand what's possible when you invest in clean energy - reducing carbon pollution and supporting family-wage… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future,… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
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… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change,… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We've introduced the New Apollo Energy Act, which is, I think, safe to say the most comprehensive and aggressive bill that has… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy.… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
For millions of Americans, climate change is no longer just a chart or a graph. It's the smoke on our tongues from… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
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… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
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… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now.… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
We have had a loss in manufacturing base and a loss of some of our productive capability that can be filled with the green-collar… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image