Martin O'Malley Quotes
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Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.
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Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
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The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
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Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
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We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
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There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.
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We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.
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My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'
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Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
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Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.
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Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.
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The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.
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We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
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I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
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Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.
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So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.
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The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'
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You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.
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Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.
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I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.
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I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.
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The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
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A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.