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Martin O'Malley [1963-0] American

Rank: 102
Politician, Former Governor of Maryland

Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American politician who was the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. He previously served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007, and was a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999.

Leadership, Marriage, Equality, Future, Respect, Anger, Attitude, Courage, Death, Education, Family, Fear, Men, Politics, Sympathy, Trust, Women

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The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.		101
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.	Death, Family	102
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.	Men, Women	103
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.	Education	104
Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.		105
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.		106
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.	Future	107
Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.		108
Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.		109
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.	Fear	110
Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.	Future	111
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.		112
Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.		113
I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.		114
Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.		115
We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.		116
In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.		117
Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.		118
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.		119
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.		120
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.		121
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.		122
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.	Leadership	123
The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.	Respect	124
Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.	Respect	125
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.	Equality, Marriage	126
Progress is a choice.		201
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.		202
Every child should be given a strong start to their education.		203
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.	Politics	204
If we want better results, we have to make better choices.		205
Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.		206
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.		207
The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.		208
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.	Equality, Marriage	209
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.	Marriage	210
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.	Leadership	211
I go to the gym pretty regularly.		212
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.		213
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.	Courage, Sympathy	214
Public trust is essential to public safety.	Trust	215
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.		216
Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.		217
The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.		218
Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.		219
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.		220
The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.		221
We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.	Leadership	222
But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.		223
We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.		224
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.		225
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.		226
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!		301
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.		302
Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.		303
We have to raise the minimum wage.		304
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.		305
The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'		306
I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.		307
I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.		308
If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.		309
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.		310
I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.		311
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.		312
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.		313
The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.		314
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.		315
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.		316
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.		317
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.		318
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.		319
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.'		320
I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.		321
The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.		322
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.		323
We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.		324
Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.		325
I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.		326
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.		401
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.		402
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.		403
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.		404
Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.		405
I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.		406
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.		407
I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.		408
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.		409
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.		410
We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.		411
None of us wants to pay more at the pump.		412
Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.		413
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.		414
People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.		415
No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.		416
The march of progress must continue.		417
Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.		418
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.		419
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.		420
We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.		421
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.		422
Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?		423
Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.		424
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.		425
To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.		426
Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.		501
There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.		502
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.		503
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.		504
God is simply love.		505
In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.		506
It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.		507
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.		508
Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.		509
There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.		510
Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.		511
I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.		512
We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.		513
There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.		514
People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.		515
I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.		516
Democrats haven't been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.		517
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.		518
I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.		519
The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.	Attitude	520
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.	Anger	521
I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.		522
There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.		523

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