Gina Raimondo

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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. ”