When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. - Christine Gregoire

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better. - Christine Gregoire

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great. - Christine Gregoire

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

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We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. - Christine Gregoire

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well. - Christine Gregoire

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks do not plan ahead and would not be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. - Christine Gregoire

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love. - Christine Gregoire

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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

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people. - Christine Gregoire

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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

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

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. - Christine Gregoire

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

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