The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents,… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
