We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
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.'
Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.
There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.
The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.
A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.
Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.
I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.
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.
Progress is a choice.
We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.
I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.
I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
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.
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.
No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.
In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.
I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.
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.
