Marion Orr Quotations

What he has to do is convince statewide voters that as CEO of Baltimore he did a good job. O'Malley's challenge is to show that he's been an effective executive despite the challenges Baltimore obviously has. And voters are going to ask themselves what they think about the job he's done in Baltimore when they decide.

Most big city mayors don't make it to statewide offices,

When you look at a big city like Baltimore, you see crime, you see poverty, you see bad schools. When you begin to think about the predicament of cities, it's not an easy position to sell.

It's a dramatic kind of change, and you see those numbers in other cities and other states.