Quotes from Martin O'Malley

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.

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.

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