Martin O'Malley Quotes
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There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.
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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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Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
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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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Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.
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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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When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.
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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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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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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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Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.
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I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
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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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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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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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Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.
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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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Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.
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I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
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There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
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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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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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In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.
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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.