Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

Gretchen Whitmer

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 23, 1971

I talk about jobs. I talk about education. I talk about making government work for people. That's really the dinner-table issues that I hear from Michiganders in every part of our state.

Gretchen Whitmer

If you don't ask for money, people don't think you are a serious candidate.

Gretchen Whitmer

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

Gretchen Whitmer

Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.

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Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love.

Gretchen Whitmer

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

Gretchen Whitmer

People don't cut through Michigan the way they cut through Ohio and Pennsylvania and Illinois. So tolls are more complicated for us because we're a destination state.

Gretchen Whitmer

In my campaign I hardly ever talked about what's happening in Washington D.C. I talked about how we're going to fix the damn roads, how we clean up drinking water, and ensure people get access to the skills they need to get good paying jobs.

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People in Michigan don't care about the president's Twitter feed. We care about feeding our families.

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Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

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Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.

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I believe you have a birthright to a good education.

Gretchen Whitmer

The budget is absolutely interlinked - our ability to fund our education system, to clean up drinking water, is linked with our ability to rebuild roads in this state. I'm not signing anything unless it's all done together.

Gretchen Whitmer

In an era when so many women are stepping up to lead, I'm hoping people will focus on our ideas and accomplishments instead of our appearance.

Gretchen Whitmer

For the longest time we looked at the career as a ladder, right, that there was one way up. I want to make sure that in Michigan we think of skills as rock climbing, that there's a different path for everyone. And each has dignity and each has the ability to make a good living here.

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I wrote the Michigan 2020, which was a free college plan, before Bernie Sanders ever offered it on the national level.

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I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a minimum wage increase.

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I am proud to be a progressive.

Gretchen Whitmer

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

Gretchen Whitmer

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

Gretchen Whitmer