Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

I believe in anything that works.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

I'm a pragmatist.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

I'm putting jobs over ideology.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

I'm not a debater. I get things done.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.