Christine Gregoire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Powerful #Empowering #Community
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
-- Christine Gregoire

#May #Disagree #Disagreeable
Parents who have fought fiercely for the rights of their much-loved Gay and Lesbian children should not have to worry that their children will be treated differently. As a mother, I can tell you that there is no prouder moment than watching your children grow up, fall in love, and commit to that love in front of their families and friends. I want that same joy for every parent and every child.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Mother #Falling In Love #Children
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Children #Legacy #Generations
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Careers #Poverty #Individual
I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Giving Up #Scratches #Able
We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Moving #Responsibility #Needs
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
-- Christine Gregoire

#People #World #Care
I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Feels
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Foundation #Our Future
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Running
We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Opportunity #Vision #Needs
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Opportunity #Fda #People
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Book #Ideas #Blue
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Legacy #Labels #Problem
We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Thinking #Long #People
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Heart #Mean #Rights
Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Educational #Feminist #Political
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Inspirational #Funny #Graduation
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Country #Appreciation #Military
The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Government #Discrimination #Sexuality
We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
-- Christine Gregoire

#People #And Love #Legacy
If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Accountability #Unity #Want
We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership. 'Separate but equal' is never equal. Children of same-sex couples should not grow up wondering why their family is treated differently from other families
-- Christine Gregoire

#Sex #Children #Growing Up
It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Responsibility #Feminist
All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.
-- Christine Gregoire

#Children #Opportunity #Community

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