The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.
— Martin O'Malley
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.
If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
We have to raise the minimum wage.
Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.
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.
But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.
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.
I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.
I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.
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.'
Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.
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.
Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.
We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
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.
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
