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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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.
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While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.
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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.
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Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.
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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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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.
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.
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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.'