Christine Gregoire

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

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

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

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.