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Jay Robert Inslee (/ˈɪnzliː/; born February 9, 1951) is an American politician, author, and attorney serving as the 23rd and current Governor of Washington since January 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's really only one entity that can do that. So we have proposed a cap-and-trade system to stop that unlimited pollution, to use the forces of the market to efficiently allocate scarce permits to allow CO2 into the atmosphere. That's just one of 500 things we need to do, but it's probably the granddaddy of them all.

Atmosphere, Community, Needs, Proposed, Use

When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He's done such great work in California; we'll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we'll forgive him that one.

Book, California, Crack, Everybody, Forgiven, Should Have

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Enough, Federal, Government, Iraq, Things

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Compelling Reason, Focus, President, Resources, Americans, Humans

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it. '

Change, Climate, Generation, Generations, Impact

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

Believe, Coincidence, Constituents, Happy, Interest, Interests

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Energy, Enron, Enron Scandal, Fact, West, West Coast

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Addiction, Break, Giving, Help, Oil, Princes

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

Bird, Endangered, Protected, River, Rivers, Tree

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

Race, Giving, Doe, Live, Life, Donors

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Jobs, Losing, Oil, Problem, Progress

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Generates, Investing, Jobs, Technology

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

Climate, Cutting, Design, National, Ought, Programs

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

Current, Currents, Down, Greenland, Hockey, Ice

We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

Moving, Responsibility, Cutting, Situation, Continues, Feathers

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

Thinking, Issues, People, Health, Forests

With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

Act, Eastern, Square, Squares, Summer, Thinking

If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

Climate, Imports, Making, Oil, Progress

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Country, Earth Day, Environmental, Energy, Spirit

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.

Challenge, Energies, Inaugural, Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

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