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" 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. "

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

" We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state's unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing. "

" The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting. "

" People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are. "

" 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. "

" I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face. "

" We have to slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully align all of our interests. "

" 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. "

" 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. "