Christine Whitman
Christine Whitman
Christine "Christie" Todd Whitmanis an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. She was New Jersey's first and, to date, only female governor. She was the second woman and first Republican woman to defeat an incumbent governor in a general election in the United States. She was also...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 September 1946
party republican type
The Republican Party has never been this narrow, litmus-test type party.
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There is a great deal of concern about this seeming attempt to couch everything in religious terms. We're not a narrow-minded nation, and at least some of the people trying to define the Republican Party are coming off that way.
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Billions of dollars have been spent to subsidize sprawl. It's not about no-growth. It's about control.
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This is far and away the worst natural disaster I've ever seen. Many people are just not going to be able to get into their houses for months.
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None of us wants to leave this world in worse shape than we found it,
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I'd be crazy not to consider it, but I'm not counting on that,
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I have standards for performance, and I'm clearly not getting anywhere near them today. . . . I can play better than this.
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I firmly believe that the agency's findings that the air quality was safe were correct.
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My goal for next year, ... is to have at least one week a month where I spend every night in my own bed.
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We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.
nightmare standard
It's a nightmare for any business. We need one standard nationally.
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It's hard to get people to pay for changes they may never see,
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It's a fallacy that the president only wants to hear from you if you agree,
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It looks as if it should be a very smooth process, and we're certainly hopeful for that,