Quotes from Gina Raimondo

The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls.

Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.

We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.

The public bus is how I got to school every day.

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.

If I'm a CEO, I want to be in a place where the government works.

Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.

Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

I guess whenever I'm in the paper, it's dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises - and saying we have to tackle these problems.

People deserve to see progress.

I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'

You can raise taxes on the rich in America! We should raise taxes on the rich in America. But we can't do that in Rhode Island.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.

Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone?

I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

In many cases, Rhode Island is just not on the radar of a lot of companies. But once companies or people take the time to look at our high quality of life, low cost of living, great talent, good business environment, often people see it's an excellent place, and they want to take a harder look.

The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.