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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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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Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.
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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.
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Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.
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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 do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
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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.