For most of the 20th century, ...

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
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 Jennifer Granholm

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The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
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Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.
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Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.
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If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.
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America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.
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