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• I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

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• Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

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• 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.

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• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

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• I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment – some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect – all of them free ideas.

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• 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.

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• In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending – including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

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• Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

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• The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

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• 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.

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• Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

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• Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts… and they certainly don’t want to say it out loud.

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• Republicans are definitely pro-birth – they’ll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?

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• Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don’t try violence.

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• If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that’s because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.

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• I’m honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You’re on your own.

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• I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

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• I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

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• I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.

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• I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It’s a little tough debating a woman.

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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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