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

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" If I'm a CEO, I want to be in a place where the government works. "

" My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've done a lot of deals, and I'm skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" People deserve to see progress. "

" Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone? "

" 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 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. "

" A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest. "

" 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. "

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