A biography for Deval Patrickhasn’t been written yet.
“My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.”
“A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.”
“I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.”
“We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.”
“If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.”
“I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.”
“People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.”
“I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.”
“We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.”
“I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.”