 Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. |
| 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. |
| It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor. |
| It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. |
| 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. |
| Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. Topics: Education |
| We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well. |
| 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. |
| I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel. |
| We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great. |
| There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people. |
| I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general. |
| We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. |
| It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future. |
| Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope. |
| We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love. |
| We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future. |
