#ld

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#cutting #cutting edge #edge #fuel-efficient #huge

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#back #call #children #country #devote

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#economic #economic engine #economy #engine #export

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

#broad #century #class #companies #created

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#costs #enterprises #eye #eye of the beholder #free

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#like #madame #people #public #public service

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The? ↗

— Keith Waterhouse

#should #society

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#experience #live #lives #majority #may

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? ↗

— Amy Grant

#away #does #else #everything #exposing