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

~Deval Patrick

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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.

~Deval Patrick

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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.

~Deval Patrick

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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.

~Deval Patrick

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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.

~Deval Patrick

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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.

~Deval Patrick

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My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

~Deval Patrick

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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.

~Deval Patrick

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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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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 31st, 1956

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