Quote of the Day: Unraveling the Social Compact

They are really unraveling every bit of the social compact that we have come, not only to count on, but have come to believe is the right thing for us to be doing. So the ladder that many of us worked our way up into the middle class, every rung of that ladder is being broken. …

So he wants to take us backwards and let everybody be on their own. What I want to do, what Democrats have always done, is say that we’re stronger and better together and we can move forward that way.

— Maggie Hassan, Democratic gubernatorial candidate on House Speaker Bill O’Brien and the New Hampshire legislature.