Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
Martin Joseph O'Malleyis an American politician who was the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007 and was a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
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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.
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A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.
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Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
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We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
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Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
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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.
There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
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There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.
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There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
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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.
None of us wants to pay more at the pump.