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If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.
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We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.
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Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.
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You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
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You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.
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I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
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No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.
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What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.
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I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
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I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.
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What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.
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No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.
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I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.
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Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.
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I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.
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There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.
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When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.
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We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.
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Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.
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Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.
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I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.