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" 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. "

Gina Raimondo

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Daughter

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Gina Raimondo

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I Am

" I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The governor's not allowed to drive. That's part of the life you accept. "

" The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline. "

" Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed. "

" We know businesses can't compete without reliable infrastructure. "

" 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. "

" I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government. "

Gina Raimondo

Want

Create

" 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've been told I'm a workaholic. "

Gina Raimondo

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Been

" We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time. "

" We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results. "

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

" 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. "

" If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity. "

" The public bus is how I got to school every day. "

" We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role. "

" 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. "

" If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be. "

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

" I want to show two things. One, that Democrats can solve big problems and get things done. And two, that as a public official, you can make tough choices, do the right things for the right reasons, and upset some people. And still get elected. "