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 before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expandin...”

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

“A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.”

“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 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 e...”

“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 cal...”

“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 oblivio...”

“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...”