Gina Raimondo Quotes
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I want to be able to look my daughter’s teacher in the eye and say, ‘Your pension will be there.’ I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep
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In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.
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Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.
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Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, ‘You’re so much nicer in real life.’ I guess I come across as not nice.
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I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
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We can just keep doing it the way we’re doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now – behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.
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Programs like ACE’s Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.
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Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.
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Let’s make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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The public bus is how I got to school every day.
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The governor’s not allowed to drive. That’s part of the life you accept.
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Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.
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Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I’ll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.
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In many cases, Rhode Island is just not on the radar of a lot of companies. But once companies or people take the time to look at our high quality of life, low cost of living, great talent, good business environment, often people see it’s an excellent place, and they want to take a harder look.
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Every single day I’ve been governor, I hear from a little girl who thinks it’s the greatest thing ever that we have a woman governor.
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The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls.
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I’ll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs… We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work.
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It’s all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island’s colleges. But we should make an active choice.
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During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state’s unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.
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If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.
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I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
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People deserve to see progress.
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I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.
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If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.