In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
— Martin O'Malley
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.
Progress is a choice.
We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.
We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources.
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.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.
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.
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
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.
Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
Public trust is essential to public safety.
Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.
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 go to the gym pretty regularly.
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.
I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.
I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.
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.
The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
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.'
The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
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 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.
Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.
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.
None of us wants to pay more at the pump.
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.
Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.
Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.
Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
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.
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.
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.
The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.
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.
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.
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.
