Governor O'Malley at the 2013 New Hampshire Jefferson Jackson Dinner

well nndb annnnd nnj

annnnd nd me is that I remember you cannot cultural permanently

I'm not completely mn yeah you were up there Gary I was and I was scared to death nnj

nnj nndb

nndb %HESITATION we all that also my government balance well thank you for letting

I and that really into the following ten years Baltimore they get crime of any major America our schools are moving in the right direction that we still have a lot of progress

Meg but we still kind of backwards really two new wave leadership it was not the sort of whole patronage driven ideological

top down hierarchy bureaucratic way the X. %HESITATION nndb

in our time together this evening I wanted to I wanted to talk with about the story of us about

the story of Baltimore in New Hampshire of Maryland in America it was fourteen years ago this month that I was elected mayor of Baltimore Baltimore

one of the very first community meetings that we organized after the election and I'll never forget a little girl came up to one of the microphone

and she said that she said Mister mayor my name is amber and I am twelve years and because of all of the addicted people and all of the drug dealers and my neighbor there

are people in the newspaper who call my neighborhood zombie like and I want to know if you know they call my neighborhood some delay and

the Baltimore that we saw in our heads now like Baltimore in nineteen ninety nine we as Americans are

going through a cynical time a display we seem to have lost that shared conviction we once had that

we actually have the ability to make things better and we have the ability to do it together there is a big difference isn't there between the America that we carry in our hearts and

the America that we see too often in our head the American we carry in our hearts is that land where anybody who works hard who

plays by the rules who gets up early in the morning can make a better future but the American are headlines is

too often a place where corporate profits are now higher than a the rich are richer than ever but the paychecks of working families keep

shrinking over time the American heart remains that nation that created the greatest and strongest middle class in

the history of the world the American our headline is a nation where too many kids can't afford to go to college and

too many college graduates can't find jobs after college I don't know that you but I've had enough of the cynicism I've

had enough of the apathy I've had enough of us giving into self pitying small solutions and low expectations of one another stronger

we make our country the more she gives back to us and to our children and to arch grant you know I am joined tonight by my son of

whom I am very very proud his name is William he is sixteen and %HESITATION dnmt would remember very distinctly when he was about nine years of we