Martin O'malley Quotes

#1. Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'

Jimmy Fallon

#2. When John O'Malley was a Jesuit novice, an older priest told him three things to remember when living in community: First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass.

James Martin

#3. 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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#4. Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

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#5. Public trust is essential to public safety.

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#6. There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.

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#7. 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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#8. I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.

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#9. 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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#10. While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

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#11. Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

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#12. We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

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#17. Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.

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#18. We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.

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#25. The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.

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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations.

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#33. We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

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#34. Let's talk about policing and public safety. Let's debate what works and what does not. We must abandon practices that do not work, and do more of the things that actually do work to save lives.

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#35. I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

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#36. 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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#37. I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.

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#38. The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. We have to raise the minimum wage.

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#42. 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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#43. Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that.

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#44. The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side.

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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

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#49. 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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#50. The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

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#51. Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

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#52. 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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#53. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

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#54. 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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#55. Democrats haven't been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.

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#56. We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

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#57. People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

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#58. My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

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#59. Look, being president of the United States is the toughest job in the world and I can tell you, as someone who has worked with Secretary Clinton and competed against her that she is a tough person who is ready to do this job.

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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.

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#69. I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

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#70. I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.

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#71. 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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#72. It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.

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#73. Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

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#74. The march of progress must continue.

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#75. I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

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#76. 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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#77. In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

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#78. 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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#79. Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

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#80. I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

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#81. You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.

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#82. We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

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#83. None of us wants to pay more at the pump.

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#84. 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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#85. God is simply love.

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#86. Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward,

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#87. 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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#88. Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.

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#89. To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

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#90. I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

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#91. Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

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#92. Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

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#97. 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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#98. I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

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#99. Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

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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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