Martin O'Malley Quotes
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We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
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Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?
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I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.
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We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.
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When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
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There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
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There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
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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.
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There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.
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The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.
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Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.
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The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
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If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
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Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain and build the #1 public schools in the nation, we had to ask everyone to pay their fair share. We need Congress to do the same.
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I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.
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Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.
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Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
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I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.
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Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
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Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.
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I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.
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I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
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Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.
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Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.