Top 100 Martin O'Malley Quotes
#1. If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.
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#3. There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
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#4. 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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#5. I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.
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#6. When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.
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#7. We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
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#8. 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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#9. Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.
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#10. To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.
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#11. Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.
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#12. Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.
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#13. His problem, is that the other side of Lindsey Graham is that he's known as sort of, I don't know, a moderate, an accommodationist.
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#14. 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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#15. History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
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#16. Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.
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#17. The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
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#18. 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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#19. We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.
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#20. We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.
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#21. I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.
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#22. 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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#23. I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.
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#27. The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side.
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#28. If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, they're generally going to side with the Republican, because they're better at that than we are.
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#29. 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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#30. A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds
music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts
can lift a community.
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#31. The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.
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#32. Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.
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#33. 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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#34. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
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#35. Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.
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#36. We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.
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#37. People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.
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#38. In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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#39. The world is a very dangerous place, but the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America, provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.
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#40. 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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#41. There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
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#42. We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources.
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#43. Some people might look at Baltimore, from afar, and see nothing but hopelessness. I see, in Baltimore, tremendously good and compassionate people, and a tremendous opportunity to save a lot a lives.
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#44. 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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#45. There are more repercussions for a person being a chronic speeding violator in our country, than there is for a big bank being a chronic violator of S.E.C. rules!
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#46. In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.
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#47. God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.
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#48. It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.
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#49. Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.
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#51. I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
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#52. We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans in our country and throughout the world who understand that this brutal and barbaric group is perverting the name of a great world religion.
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#54. I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
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#55. We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.
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#57. 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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#59. I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.
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#60. Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.
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#61. To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.
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#62. Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald Trump for president.
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#63. All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
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#64. 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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#65. I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.
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#66. There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.
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#67. I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
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#68. Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.
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#69. We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
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#70. Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
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#71. 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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#72. Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.
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#73. 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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#74. Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.
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#75. I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.
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#76. If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
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#77. If we want better results, we have to make better choices.
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#78. Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.
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#80. Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
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#81. The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.
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#82. It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
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#83. If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
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#84. The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
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#85. There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.
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#86. 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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#87. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.
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#88. We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.
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#89. 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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#90. Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
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#91. There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
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#92. Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.
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#93. 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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#94. A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.
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#95. We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
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#96. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.
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#97. As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
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