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
I kind of agree with the position of most Democrats, that marriage is often a religious institution, and civil unions may be a better way to go.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
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
With outsourcing, with NAFTA-we call it SHAFTA in the state of Michigan-but truly we have struggled with the global economy.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
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
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
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
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.