Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice. Martin O'Malley More Quotes by Martin O'Malley More Quotes From Martin O'Malley Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises. Martin O'Malley stronger evil home We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are. Martin O'Malley next-steps safe-haven collaboration We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go. Martin O'Malley isil focus needs When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket. Martin O'Malley mean country book Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. Martin O'Malley ships class america Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward. Martin O'Malley strategy america moving The only thing that's consistent in politics is change. Martin O'Malley consistent Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that. Martin O'Malley instinct believe people An election is an opportunity for a new consensus. Martin O'Malley consensus election opportunity Look, being president of the United States is the toughest job in the world and I can tell you, as someone who has worked with Secretary Clinton and competed against her that she is a tough person who is ready to do this job. Martin O'Malley president jobs world As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability. Martin O'Malley appreciate military roots ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations. Martin O'Malley isis democracy roles We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction. Martin O'Malley jobs long moving In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice. Martin O'Malley jobs country moving A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community. Martin O'Malley creativity compassion art Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back. Martin O'Malley loss jobs moving Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense. Martin O'Malley differences believe thinking But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush. Martin O'Malley holes should sight The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side. Martin O'Malley democratic clinton sides I can tell you my feelings were hurt. Martin O'Malley i-can hurt feelings