“Service has to be the way that we define and analyze our contribution to the world,” the new governor of Maryland says. (edited)
,” because his family traced back to Annapolis. So I said, “I want to start the day there.” And so myself, the lieutenant governor, and a couple hundred people all met down at the dock, and we had a moment of silence. Then we basically marched from the docks up to the statehouse, which is a short march in terms of geography, but we really wanted to highlight the power of the journey. The statehouse was built by enslaved people.
And when you know and consider the history of Maryland, of the United States, this journey wasn’t a smooth one. This journey was an uneven one. This journey was one that caused a tremendous amount of conflict. And not even just physical conflict but internal conflict. It forced people to wrestle with things. It forced people to be introspective. And that wrestling made our society better.
Either in books or an interview, you said, “I grew up in a family of people who love this country, even if it didn’t always love them back.” The reality is that, for a lot of people, “Where are you from?” is an easy question. And for me it was never an easy question, because I moved around a lot. I moved around a lot not because it was fun. We moved around a lot because of tragedy. So it was my family consistently moving for an opportunity, for a job, for support when my mom needed it. I think about it in context.
I didn’t know anything about Wall Street, because I didn’t know anybody when I came up who was ever on Wall Street. My football coach at Johns Hopkins was a trader at Deutsche Bank in Baltimore, and, at night, he would coach Johns Hopkins football. He was the one who was first, like, “Hey, have you thought about doing anything in finance?” Because I studied international relations, econ, etc.
Once again, the conventional wisdom told me who I needed to select as my running mate. “You’ve got to pick this person from this part of the state, and dah-dah-dah.” And I was, like, “O.K., I hear everyone’s advice,” and I decided to go with the immigrant who came to this country from India and who was a former delegate. It was the absolute right decision for me, and I think the right decision for the state.
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