A biography for Gretchen Whitmerhasn’t been written yet.
“Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.”
“In an era when so many women are stepping up to lead, I'm hoping people will focus on our ideas and accomplishments instead of our appearance.”
“So many of these decisions are made in a vacuum with a bunch of men sitting around a table deciding what a woman's rights should be, what our access to health care, trying to control women by controlling our bodies.”
“A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.”
“I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.”
“Community colleges are in every district in this state, they serve Republican and Democratic families and non-partisan and non-political families as well.”
“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.”
“People in Michigan don't care about the president's Twitter feed. We care about feeding our families.”
“Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.”
“There have been too few women in leadership because they haven't had the opportunities.”
“One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.”
“People don't cut through Michigan the way they cut through Ohio and Pennsylvania and Illinois. So tolls are more complicated for us because we're a destination state.”
“But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn't result in a pregnancy. Because I can't imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker.”
“I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.”
“לא משנה מה הנשיא [דונלד טראמפ] אומר על המצב בבורסה. מה שחשוב הוא שמיליוני אנשים מתקשים להתקיים ונשארים ללא כסף בסוף החודש לאחר ששילמו על תחבורה, הלוואות סטודנטים או תרופות.”
“היו לי הזדמנויות מדי יום ביומו לעזור לאנשים כמשרתת ציבור. זה נותן סיפוק.”
“אנשים רוצים במנהיגים שהם יכולים לכבד, שמסוגלים לפתור בעיות ולהראות תוצאות.”
“אני אוהבת להיפגש וללמוד מאנשים חדשים.”
“Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.”
“Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.”