Quotes from Jay Inslee

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.

We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments - like DACA - to hope and determination? Or are we a nation that is turned inward, lauding monuments to intolerance and division?

Healing is a moral thing to do.

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

ISIS is a terrorist organization. It is a terrorist organization that the world must unite against.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

My progressive record is unmatched.

In my state, I created a Clean Energy Fund and invested in electrifying our transportation system - from vehicles and buses to transit and even ferries.

Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy. We must be vigilant in working to accelerate this transition, not slow or reverse it.

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.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

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