Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

The public welfare is a broad and inclusive concept. The moral, social, economic and physical well-being is one part of it; the political well-being another.

The people of West Virginia deserve jobs. But the people of West Virginia also deserve clean water.

I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met.

Michigan's problems are not partisan problems. Potholes are not political. There is no such thing as Republican or Democratic school kids or drinking water. These challenges affect us all. They make Michigan a harder place to get ahead. A harder place to raise a family. A harder place to run a business.

It's all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island's colleges. But we should make an active choice.

We will be a state that puts hardworking Georgians - no matter their ZIP code or political preference - first.

The better off Indian can engage more deeply with political process to demand effectiveness from the institutions of the state. We can raise our voices for better education and healthcare, for better public infrastructure, for cleaner air.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

What I believe we need to do is to be the smartest, the healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on earth. So in order to become the healthiest nation on earth, we need a different health care system.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.

We want a Colorado that works for everybody.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

Provision of best services to the citizens is our top priority, and Punjab government has evolved a coordinated programme in this regard.