"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."

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Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

Christine Gregoire

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“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.”
“Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.”
“Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.”
“To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!”
“Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.”
“No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.”
“If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.”
“I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.”

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