If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today. Jay Inslee More Quotes by Jay Inslee More Quotes From Jay Inslee Healing is a moral thing to do. Jay Inslee get-well moral healing We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.' Jay Inslee impact climate generations What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee rivers tree bird When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He's done such great work in California; we'll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we'll forgive him that one. Jay Inslee california should-have book Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people. Jay Inslee issues mistake thinking The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. Jay Inslee addiction oil giving I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. Jay Inslee hearted effort half We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option. Jay Inslee cutting responsibility moving President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet. Jay Inslee compelling-reason focus president I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America. Jay Inslee country children blood We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries. Jay Inslee daughter mother country We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action." Jay Inslee race responsibility inspire Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie. Jay Inslee apples tolerance pie I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home. Jay Inslee destiny home jobs But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life. Jay Inslee race doe giving We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty. Jay Inslee poverty technology light Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. Jay Inslee constitution tolerance house Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. Jay Inslee creativity flames light If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. Jay Inslee hockey currents ice I would like to see whoever is our next president dedicate a significant part of their inaugural address to this challenge. We have to ignite the nation's energies and passions on this to make this happen. I think we do need the same kind of inspiration we had from Kennedy in his inaugural address in 1961. Jay Inslee passion inspiration thinking
