A biography for Dannel Malloyhasn’t been written yet.
“If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.”
“If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.”
“The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.”
“I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.”
“What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.”
“Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.”
“There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.”
“I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.”
“I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.”
“Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.”
“Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.”
“We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.”
“If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?”