Rick Snyder Quotes

A collection of quotes by Rick Snyder.

Rick Snyder is an American businessman and politician who served as the 48th Governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019. Born on August 19, 1958, in Battle Creek, Michigan, Snyder hails from a family of lawyers and engineers. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in general studies from the University of Michigan in 1977, followed by a law degree and MBA from the same institution.

Before entering politics, Snyder amassed significant experience in business and finance. He co-founded an investment company, Ardesta LLC, and worked as a venture capitalist. During his early career, he served in various executive positions at prominent companies like Gateway Computers and the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand.

Snyder's political career began when he announced his candidacy for the governorship of Michigan as a Republican in 2010. He campaigned as a pragmatic problem-solver and won the election by defeating his Democratic opponent. As governor, he focused on turning around Michigan's struggling economy, implementing fiscal reforms, and promoting business growth. Despite his controversial decisions, including the emergency manager law for financially distressed municipalities, Snyder was re-elected for a second term in 2014.

However, his tenure faced significant challenges, most notably the Flint water crisis, which began in 2014. The crisis, in which the city's water supply was contaminated with lead, led to widespread criticism of Snyder's administration and accusations of negligence. After leaving office in 2019, Snyder remained active in public speaking and consulting roles.

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It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in , for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again.This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since , but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores.

Christopher Hitchens

People

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

Rick Snyder

Sports