Quotes by Jay Inslee

Jay Inslee

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that’s being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

Air

Atmosphere

Cities

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There’s really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.

Air

Dirty

Government

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.

Car

Goal

Umpires

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.

Destiny

Home

Jobs

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

Effort

Half

Hearted

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.

Blood

Children

Country

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.

Air

Real

Years

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.

Inspiration

Passion

Thinking

I’m sure that in the fullness of time we’ll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that’s the nature of innovation, and that’s why we should spread our bets; we should not put our eggs in any one basket. Some of these will be grand successes, some of them will be average, and some of them will be abject failures.

Average

Eggs

Technology

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Currents

Hockey

Ice

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Apples

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Blood

Book

California

Car

Children

Cities

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Constitution

Country

Creativity

Currents

Cutting

Destiny

Dirty

Earth Day

Effort

Eggs

Energy

Enough

Environmental

Fire

Flames

Games

Generations

Goal

Government

Half

Hearted

Hockey

Home

House

Ice

Impact

Independence

Information

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Iraq

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Quotes by Jay Inslee

Jay Inslee

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There’s really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.

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.

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.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

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.

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.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

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