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
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world cant provide health care to all its people. – Christine Gregoire
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. – Christine Gregoire
I want to work on respecting individuals dignity. Equal rights, thats where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and thats what we need. – Christine Gregoire
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne