Gina Raimondo Quotes

Gina Raimondo

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 17, 1971

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.

Gina Raimondo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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.

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