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Deval Patrick
American
Politician
Born:
Jul 31
,
1956
Believe
Great
Job
Life
People
You
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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.
Deval Patrick
You
People
Long
Believe
Too
Tell
Telling
Democrats
Hear
Been
Going
Want
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.
Deval Patrick
You
Picture
Head
Beyond
Go
Going
Move
Where
Want
Stand
Your
Conjure
Moment
Ever
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.
Deval Patrick
Time
Welfare
Mother
Three
Sister
Live
Side
Slept
Those
Various
Had
Shared
Most
Bedrooms
Beds
Cousins
South
Chicago
Up
South Side
Bunk
Grew
Us
Grandparents
Used
Set
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.
Deval Patrick
Government
Health
People
Care
Country
Before
Early Years
Those
Fact
Federal
Federal Government
Picked
Most
Health Care
Issue
Go
Years
Up
Expanding
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Going
Subsidy
Expense
Bankrupt
In Fact
Anymore
Which
Act
Who
Illness
Serious
Early
Here
Need
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.
Deval Patrick
Drive
State
Out
He
Drove
Name
House
Identify
Snakes
Ireland
Intend
Just
Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.
Deval Patrick
Me
Dog
Attack
Knows
Anybody
Who
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.
Deval Patrick
Great
You
Job
Tell
Fine
About
Having
More
He
Massachusetts
Fellow
Talks
Doing
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Lot
Salesman
Governor
Than
Fixed
Romney
Interested
Them
Things
We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.
Deval Patrick
Future
Own
President
President Barack Obama
Our
Obama
Shape
Up
American
Barack
Barack Obama
Standing
Standing Up
Start
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
Deval Patrick
You
Meet
Everyone
Tell
Charge
Dream
Obama
Go
American
American Dream
Want
Barack
Barack Obama
Stake
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.
Deval Patrick
Broken
Single
Big
Sense
Community
Public Schools
Every
Those
Adult
Had
Days
Schools
Because
Real
Block
Were
Child
Jurisdiction
Real Sense
Public
I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
Deval Patrick
Health
Food
Remember
Before
Solutions
Stuff
Well
Became
How
Popular
Dad
I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
Deval Patrick
Leadership
Try
Values
Believe
Govern
Very
Transcendent
Much
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.
Deval Patrick
People
Entitlement
Job
Case
Make
Read
Inevitability
American
Candidates
Want
Them
Sweat
American People
Actually
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.
Deval Patrick
Birthday
Me
Law
School
Father
Year
Before
Club
Jazz
Local
Summer
Spent
Law Firm
Law School
Join
Firm
Since
Invited
Him
July
Happened
Turned
Worked
Agreed
Washington
Playing
Third
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.
Deval Patrick
Tough
Pleasant
Those
Gifts
Both
Open
Had
Learned
Been
Experiences
View
Full
Lessons
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.
Deval Patrick
Good
Business
Rights
Matter
Problems
Kinds
Civil
Civil Rights
Fact
Never
Stuff
Like
Left
Fixed
Door
Hard
Conscience
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.
Deval Patrick
Work
Buy
You
Rights
People
Some People
Lawyer
Believe
Civil
Some
Civil Rights
Only
Just
View
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