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.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.