Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

Kansas businesses depend on high-skilled workers to be competitive and to contribute to the local economy.

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

If a new company is formed, it hires people and creates jobs in its community. As it grows, people's opportunities multiply and wages rise. Inequality diminishes as more people get pulled into good jobs.

When we can educate and train our workforce and simultaneously match their skills with jobs, we will generate opportunities to keep our homegrown talent in-state and provide sustainable economic growth for Mississippi.

I believe we must stay focused on policies that will help put more Mississippians to work and make our economy stronger.

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

Education is economic development.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

It is crucial to bridge the critical gap between manpower availability and employability by providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for all to grow and prosper.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

I want to see Texas remain an entrepreneurial powerhouse in the United States.

It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And it's America Inc. that has the most to gain from tapping this extraordinary human resource.

We have to diversify our economy. We have to create jobs. We have to focus on education, more training programmes.