Quotes by Governor Of Massachusetts of the Authors - Page 1

I don't want to be a senator.
Deval Patrick / Governor Of Massachusetts
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It's a free country. I wish it weren't.
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Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.
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"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.
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It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.
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Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.
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I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.
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This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.
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We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.
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One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.
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We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.
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I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
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Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
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My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.
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Describing
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For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.
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Long
People
Believe I Believe Long
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A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
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And Love
Differences
Excitement
Great Teacher
Students
All The Difference
Love Teacher Great
Love Great Teacher
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In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
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I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
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Transcendent
Very
Much
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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
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People
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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.
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Common Sense
Drained
Good People
Check
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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.
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Moving
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I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House
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I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.
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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 want to be a Senator until I’m honored.
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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.
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Entitlement
Inevitability
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American People
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I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.
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Pleasant
Gifts
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I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.
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Expectations
Identity
Sense Of Self
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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 at it, as a matter of fact... and I never left my conscience at the door.
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Civil Rights
Conscience
Fixed
Civil
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We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.
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People
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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.
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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 a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.
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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.
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Community
Country
Thinking
Apply
Life Hope Yourself
Life Hope Better
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My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.
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Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.
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I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.
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I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.
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Bunk
Chicago
Welfare
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South Side
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We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
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Helping
Helping People
Life Government Believe
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The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.
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Firm
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July
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People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.
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Affordable
Affordable Care Act
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Expanding
Federal Government
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Serious
Health Government People
Health People Care
Health Government Care
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Early Years
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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.
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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 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.
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Governor is the only office I've ever run for, and I did so in the first place because I felt that there was a contribution I could make right now in governing for the long term and by leading by values. I ran for a second term to finish the work we started. I'll finish this out and return to the private sector, which I enjoy and miss in some ways.
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I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. They have nothing to do with race or even with political parties. Secondly, I think nothing substitutes for the power of the grassroots by showing them the courtesy of going to them where they are and inviting them to take part in the political process.
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