Quotes from Gretchen Whitmer

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

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.

Midwest elections have consequences.

I'm a mom. I'm a lawyer. I'm a lifelong Michigander.

But ultimately, at the end of the day, people want leaders who they respect and who they believe in and who can get things done.

And for government and a bunch of men in government, frankly, to get between a woman and her provider is downright dangerous, especially when most of them can't even spell endometriosis, much less tell you what it means.

Community colleges are in every district in this state, they serve Republican and Democratic families and non-partisan and non-political families as well.

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.

We've got to create strategies of our own that ensure that our kids are going to get an education they need, that people are getting connected to skills and that we do more to draw investment into the city of Flint.

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.