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People don't cut through Michigan the way they cut through Ohio and Pennsylvania and Illinois. So tolls are more complicated for us because we're a destination state.

In my campaign I hardly ever talked about what's happening in Washington D.C. I talked about how we're going to fix the damn roads, how we clean up drinking water, and ensure people get access to the skills they need to get good paying jobs.

People in Michigan don't care about the president's Twitter feed. We care about feeding our families.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.

I believe you have a birthright to a good education.

The budget is absolutely interlinked - our ability to fund our education system, to clean up drinking water, is linked with our ability to rebuild roads in this state. I'm not signing anything unless it's all done together.

In an era when so many women are stepping up to lead, I'm hoping people will focus on our ideas and accomplishments instead of our appearance.

For the longest time we looked at the career as a ladder, right, that there was one way up. I want to make sure that in Michigan we think of skills as rock climbing, that there's a different path for everyone. And each has dignity and each has the ability to make a good living here.

I wrote the Michigan 2020, which was a free college plan, before Bernie Sanders ever offered it on the national level.

I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a minimum wage increase.

I am proud to be a progressive.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.

Flint's got so many hardworking, good people who just want a fair shake and it starts with making sure their government is responsive and protecting them and making sure everyone's got access to clean water.

My number one priority is keeping our kids safe and protecting the health of the people of Michigan.

I'm proud to be a Michigander, but I look around at the Michigan that my kids are growing up in and it doesn't look like the Michigan that I think of when I talk about my pride.

I think the most important thing to know is I'm running for governor because I love the state of Michigan.

I know that the DeVos agenda has absolutely devastated our public school system in Michigan.

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people, they don't have the support they need, they're lost. Schools are supposed to be the thing that levels the playing field.

We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don't leave with crippling debt that you never have a chance to pay back because you're not making enough money.

I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

People want leaders they can look up to, who can solve problems and actually deliver results for our people.

We need to ensure that everyone's got a path to getting a license, so they've got identification.

So many of these decisions are made in a vacuum with a bunch of men sitting around a table deciding what a woman's rights should be, what our access to health care, trying to control women by controlling our bodies.

But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn't result in a pregnancy. Because I can't imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker.

Obviously, Detroiters pay the worst when it comes to car insurance, but car insurance is expensive for Michiganders across the state. I hear about it in all communities.

One of the weirdest questions I've gotten on the campaign trail is, 'Are you going to run as a woman?' I'm like, 'Do I have an option?' Like, what does this mean?

Detroit's really important to the success of our state. You know, you can't have a successful Michigan if the biggest city isn't a success as well.

I talk about jobs. I talk about education. I talk about making government work for people. That's really the dinner-table issues that I hear from Michiganders in every part of our state.

If you don't ask for money, people don't think you are a serious candidate.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.

Michigan's problems are not partisan problems. Potholes are not political. There is no such thing as Republican or Democratic school kids or drinking water. These challenges affect us all. They make Michigan a harder place to get ahead. A harder place to raise a family. A harder place to run a business.

Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love.

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

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