70 Quotes by Deval Patrick

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.

The notion that there would be two individuals with exactly the same seniority and exactly the same qualifications who would agree that they are equally qualified seems too unlikely to repeat itself in the real world.

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.

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.

If the question is, is there some conflict of interest between where or what my sources are and where my sources are and the job of governing, you'll know that from my financial disclosure forms, and that's entirely appropriate.

I frequently feel when I listen to him and to many other elected officials that they are speaking to an audience not in the room.

In a healthy democracy, the voters choose representatives. In the system we have, the representatives choose the voters. That's upside down. This proposal puts us right side up again.

I really analyzed the project, talked to all the sides and stood on the shore.

I file jointly with my wife, so making our tax returns public means making a non-candidate's tax returns public. I'm not going to do that.