Gina Raimondo Quotes
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'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.
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I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I’m not just some policy maker who’s totally detached from the rest of the community.
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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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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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Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.
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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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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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The governor’s not allowed to drive. That’s part of the life you accept.
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Let’s make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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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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Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.
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The public bus is how I got to school every day.
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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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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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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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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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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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People deserve to see progress.
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I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
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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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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.