Jennifer M. Granholm Quotes

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Women, Young, Broken

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.
Jennifer M. Granholm

While, Veterans, Congress

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Sacrifice, Small, Iraq

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?
Jennifer M. Granholm

Country, Lose, Nation

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Love, Free, Ideas

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Strength, Gratitude, Words

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Mom, Single, Place

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.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Away, Kids, While

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
Jennifer M. Granholm

Money, Home, Free

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Best, Gratitude, Important

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Small, America, Ways

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.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Forward, Help, Single

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.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Success, Enjoy, Made

I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Someone, Thought, Office

I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Win, Problem, Become

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.
Jennifer M. Granholm

House, White, Partner

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Friends, Big, Risk

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.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Time, Government, Long

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.
Jennifer M. Granholm

After, Put, Year

Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Women, Men, Political

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Free, Rest, Stuff

Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Love, Long, Stand

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Great, History, Job

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Service, Used, Until

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Politics, Him, Another

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: February 5, 1959

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