Gina Raimondo

“Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice.”

“Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.”

“People deserve to see progress.”

“I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.”

“I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.”

“Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.”

“I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.”

“I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.”

“If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.”

“The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure.”

“I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.”

“Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.”

“I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.”

“People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.”

“You can't be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.”

“In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.”

“It's all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island's colleges. But we should make an active choice.”

“Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.”

“My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.”

“The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.”