Top 111 Martin OMalley Quotes

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.

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.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

Democrats haven’t been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.

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

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.

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.’

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

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.

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.

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.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

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

Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.

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.

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.

It’s time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

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.

In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

There are times in Annapolis when a governor’s support can move an issue over the goal line.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

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

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.

We can’t expect Wall Street to police itself – that’s why we have a federal government.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

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.

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

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.

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.

Typically, I don’t get to unwind after a day at work.

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

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

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.

You can’t forge a new sort of consensus, you can’t forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

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.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

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.

I didn’t run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

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.

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.

In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

God is simply love.

Our story, Maryland’s story, is the story of better choices and better results.

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

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

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!

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.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

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.

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.

I’ve been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.

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

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

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Democrats haven’t been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.

There are times in Annapolis when a governor’s support can move an issue over the goal line.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That’s why we need to continue to move forward.

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.

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.

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.