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" The governor's not allowed to drive. That's part of the life you accept. "
Gina Raimondo
Part
Life
Governor
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" The public bus is how I got to school every day. "
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" The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls. "
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Women
Single
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting. "
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Own
" 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. "
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Honest
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" Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced. "
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Problems
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" A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest. "
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Interest
Government
" What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages. "
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" I'm committed to structural changes. "
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Structural
Committed
" 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? "
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Help
Running
" 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. "
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Technology
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" We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results. "
Gina Raimondo
Keep Going
Work
Action
" People deserve to see a governor who is hustling every day. "
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Day
Deserve
See
" In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector. "
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Public
Measure
Performance
" 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. "
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Nice
You
Day
" 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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Empower
Way
Half
" 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. "
Gina Raimondo
Choose
Choices
Island
" I've done a lot of deals, and I'm skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table. "
Gina Raimondo
Lot
Personalities
Deals
" 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. "
Gina Raimondo
America
You
Rich
" The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English. "
Gina Raimondo
English
Library
Grandfather
" People deserve to see progress. "
Gina Raimondo
People
Deserve
See
" Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool. "
Gina Raimondo
Talent
Pool
Places
" We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time. "
Gina Raimondo
Time
Long
Long Time
" I've been told I'm a workaholic. "
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Workaholic
Been
" My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together. "
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Simple
Together
Better
" Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are. "
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Try
Pretend
Problems
" Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed. "
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Everyone
Succeed
Sat
" 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. "
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Doing
Government
Healthy
" 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. "
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Hear
Single
Greatest