Christine Gregoire Quotes

• We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Dream, Future

  Tags in dream, Realize

• Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Individuals, Poverty

• Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Education, Opportunity

  Tags in People

• Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Education, Future

  Tags in Foundation

• 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.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doing, General

• I want to work on respecting individuals’ dignity. Equal rights, that’s where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that’s what we need.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality, Heart, Individual

• I’m free. I’m free to say what I feel.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Free, Feel

• 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.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, Create, Instructions

• In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Care, People

• It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Focus, Differences

• It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Governor

• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Children, Future

  Tags in Generations

• It’s been said that government doesn’t create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Government

• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Free, Fighting, Election

• It’s our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inherited, Responsibility

• 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.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Powerful, Communities

• There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can’t provide health care to all its people.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Health

  Tags in People, Reason

• 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.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Republican, Educational

• We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Personal

• 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.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Thinking

Christine Gregoire (25)

Birth:	24th March, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Christine O'Grady Gregoire was born in Adrian, Michigan. She is an American lawyer and politician  who served as the 22nd Governor of the state of Washington from 2005 to 2013. She is the second female governor of Washington. She was the National Governors Association chairwoman for the 2010–11 term. She attended law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, receiving her Juris Doctor in 1977.

 

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