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

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.

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.

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

Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.

Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.