Christine Gregoire

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.