"I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home."

--

Source : "Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.

Jay Inslee

#Jobs Quotes #Home Quotes #Destiny Quotes

“Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!”
“All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.”
“I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.”
“Iâ€™d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.”
“He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.”

Source : Victor Serge (2014). “Birth of Our Power”, p.225, PM Press
“April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself ...”
“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”
“No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.”

Source : Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

You may also like:

Ed Murray
Mayor of Seattle
Jim McDermott
U.S. Representative
Maria Cantwell
United States Senator
Norm Dicks
Former U.S. Representative
Patty Murray
United States Senator
Rick Larsen
United States Representative
Rob McKenna
Former Washington Attorney General
John Kitzhaber
Former Governor of Oregon
Pramila Jayapal