Deval Patrick

Hope for the best and work for it.

— Deval Patrick

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.

— Deval Patrick

Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within…

— Deval Patrick

My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short…

— Deval Patrick

I’m planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don’t know. I don’t…

— Deval Patrick

It's a free country. I wish it weren't.

— Deval Patrick

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

— Deval Patrick

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door.…

— Deval Patrick

I don't want to be a senator.

— Deval Patrick

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent…

— Deval Patrick

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check…

— Deval Patrick

People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually…

— Deval Patrick

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

— Deval Patrick

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I…

— Deval Patrick

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the…

— Deval Patrick

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the…

— Deval Patrick

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with…

— Deval Patrick

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

— Deval Patrick

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

— Deval Patrick

I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.

— Deval Patrick

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's…

— Deval Patrick

I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good…

— Deval Patrick

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used…

— Deval Patrick

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you…

— Deval Patrick

People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country…

— Deval Patrick