Martin O'Malley Quotes

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office.

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I was an officer in my student council.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.

In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I don't know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasn't a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.

Children are there to go to school and I absolutely support their rights to have views about the world and I absolutely support them expressing themselves, but not during school.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.