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

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

" I'm committed to structural changes. "

" I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement. "

" The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure. "

" 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. "

" Every single day I've been governor, I hear from a little girl who thinks it's the greatest thing ever that we have a woman governor. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?' "

" 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 guess whenever I'm in the paper, it's dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises - and saying we have to tackle these problems. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced. "

" 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. "

" Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice. "

" What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages. "

" 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. "

" I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch. "

" In many cases, Rhode Island is just not on the radar of a lot of companies. But once companies or people take the time to look at our high quality of life, low cost of living, great talent, good business environment, often people see it's an excellent place, and they want to take a harder look. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" People deserve to see a governor who is hustling every day. "

" Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool. "

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

" 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. "

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