Martin O'Malley

“The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.”

“Public trust is essential to public safety.”

“I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.”

“I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.”

“When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.”

“I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.”

“Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.”

“I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.”

“Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.”

“I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.”

“There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.”

“I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.”

“History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.”

“Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.”

“Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.”

“When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.”

“God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.”