DANNEL MALLOY

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.

Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.

What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.

Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.