Quotes from Martin O'Malley

In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.

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

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

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

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.

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.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

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

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

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

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

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.

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

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.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

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.

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.