Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Dannel Malloy

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Dannel Patrick Malloy is an American politician, who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. On July 1, 2019, he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System.

American - Politician | Born: July 21, 1955

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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

Dannel Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Dannel Malloy

Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.

Dannel Malloy

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

Dannel Malloy

What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.

Dannel Malloy

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.

Dannel Malloy

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

Dannel Malloy

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

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Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.

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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

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The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

Dannel Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

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We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

Dannel Malloy

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.

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Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.

Dannel Malloy

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

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I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

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I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.

Dannel Malloy

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

Dannel Malloy

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

Dannel Malloy

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

Dannel Malloy

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

Dannel Malloy

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.

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When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

Dannel Malloy

I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.

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A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.

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We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

Dannel Malloy

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

Dannel Malloy

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

Dannel Malloy

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

Dannel Malloy

Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Dannel Malloy

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