Quotes from Deval Patrick

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

I'm planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don't know. I don't want to be a Senator until I'm honored.

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

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.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

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

Hope for the best and work for it.

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.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.