If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.
Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.
I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.
I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.
If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.
Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.
I go to the gym pretty regularly.
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.
Progress is a choice.
Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.
Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.
People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.
The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.
