Deval Patrick

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”