Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.
The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure.
I'm committed to structural changes.
Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.
I'll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs... We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work.
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.
I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.
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.
Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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.
My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.
We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.
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.
There's lots of people driving on the roads who don't have licenses. They're still going to work, still going to school. I want them to get a license and insurance so they're driving safely.
People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.
You can raise taxes on the rich in America! We should raise taxes on the rich in America. But we can't do that in Rhode Island.
We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results.
What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.
We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.
