Zitat des Tages von Martin O'Malley:
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.
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.
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.
God is simply love.
Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.
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.
There are more repercussions for a person being a chronic speeding violator in our country, than there is for a big bank being a chronic violator of S.E.C. rules!
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.
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
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.
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.
People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.
But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.
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.
It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
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.
I go to the gym pretty regularly.
I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.
Every child should be given a strong start to their education.
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 do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.
The march of progress must continue.
We have to raise the minimum wage.
Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.
Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.
We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
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.
There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.
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.
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.