8 Quotes & Sayings By Jay Inslee

U.S. Senator Jay Inslee was born in Tacoma, Washington, and attended public schools there and in Edmonds, Washington. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Washington School of Law. He has worked as a lawyer and an attorney with the U.S Read more

Department of Justice. He represented the state in Congress from 1977 to 1991 and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Washington in 1986 and 1990. He was elected Governor in 1994 and was reelected in 1998.

As governor he reformed state government, created new jobs, increased incomes for farmers, increased school funding, helped save the Evergreen State College, protected Puget Sound's salmon populations, supported alternative energy research, increased access to health care for all citizens, streamlined government, and protected the environment while increasing revenues by more than $1 billion. His official biography is here .

Resistance is NOT futile.
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Resistance is NOT futile. Jay Inslee
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The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. Jay Inslee
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Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000. Jay Inslee
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Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. Jay Inslee
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Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. Jay Inslee
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I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. Jay Inslee
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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. Jay Inslee