My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

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

Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.