Martin O'Malley Quotes

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

“Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.”

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— 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.”

— Martin O'Malley

“I go to the gym pretty regularly.”

— Martin O'Malley

“The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“Democrats haven't been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.”

— Martin O'Malley

“God is simply love.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

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.

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.

— Martin O'Malley

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.”

— Martin O'Malley

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“We have to raise the minimum wage.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

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.

— Martin O'Malley

“Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.”

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

“Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain and build the #1 public schools in the nation, we had to ask everyone to pay their fair share. We need Congress to do the same.”

— Martin O'Malley

“There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.”

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Martin O'Malley

“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.”

— Martin O'Malley

“While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.”

— Martin O'Malley

“To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.”

— Martin O'Malley

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.

— Martin O'Malley

“Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that.”

— Martin O'Malley

“Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.”

— Martin O'Malley

“We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.”

— Martin O'Malley

“As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.”

— Martin O'Malley

“The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side.”

— Martin O'Malley

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

— Martin O'Malley

“I can tell you my feelings were hurt,”

— Martin O'Malley