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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You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.
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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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The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'
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People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.
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You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
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I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.
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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.
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Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.
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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.
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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.
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Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
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Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.
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I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.