Top 161 Quotes & Sayings by Martin O'Malley

The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

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.

I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

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

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

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

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

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

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

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.

Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

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

Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.

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

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

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

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.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

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

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

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

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.

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

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

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

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.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

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

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

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

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.

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 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.

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.'

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

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

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

I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

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.

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

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

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.