Jay Inslee quotes

Jay Inslee is an American politician best known as the Governor of Washington State. A dedicated Democrat, he is recognized for his strong advocacy on climate change and clean energy. He has played a significant role in shaping progressive environmental policies in the United States. Here are 29 of his quotes:

Healing is a moral thing to do. (Jay Inslee)
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. View quote
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Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. View quote
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Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods. View quote
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Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. View quote
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Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people. View quote
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If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. View quote
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I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home. View quote
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I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. View quote
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I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody. View quote
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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. (Jay Inslee)
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. View quote
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On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures. View quote
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But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life. View quote
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The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. View quote
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With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. View quote
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Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. View quote
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Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000. View quote
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There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people. View quote
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We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. View quote
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We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries. (Jay Inslee)
I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. View quote
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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. View quote
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So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. View quote
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Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq. View quote
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Jay Inslee

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Occupation: American Politician
Born: February 9, 1951
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: Jay Inslee

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