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• Whether it’s their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

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• 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.

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• When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn’t know what it was.

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• We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

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• Today in America we are no more ‘post-racial’ than we are ‘post-partisan.’ We have a long way to go.

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• Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids’ toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don’t hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it – they are all public employees.

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

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• This is the place where anybody – like an African American kid raised by a single mom – can be president.

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• Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you’ve got three other legs to stand on.

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• 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.

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• Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

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• Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

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• It’s that Romney is taking advantage of the government’s ‘free stuff,’ too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time – even as he rails about the ‘free stuff’ that the government provides other people.

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• I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat – attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

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• I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

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• I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it’s big problem – one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there’s a possibility he can win.

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Jennifer Granholm (87)

Birth:	5th February, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Jennifer Mulhern Granholm was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an American Democratic politician and lawyer who served as the Attorney General of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and as the Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011. She earned a BA degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. She earned a JD degree from Harvard Law School in 1987, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She is the author of book (memoir), entitled A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future (with Dan Mulhern).

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