Political Quotes

Deval Patrick

The Public Record

Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015

Quotes by year · 2012–202625 total · peak 2012 (9)
2012: 9 quotes2013: 3 quotes2014: 1 quote2019: 3 quotes2022: 6 quotes2026: 3 quotes
Oct 7, 2026

Politics nowadays is less about ‘red’ versus ‘blue’ than about insiders versus outsiders.

commonwealthbeacon.org
Aug 20, 2026

The successful candidates are the ones who present themselves as candidates for everyone, and not candidates for just some.

abcnews.com
Sep 15, 2022

I think we have a serious immigration problem, and it requires a comprehensive solution. If there is more that the Federal government needs to do for those States to address particular issues in those States, then the Federal government…

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Sep 15, 2022

What we've seen from the Governor of Florida and the Governor of Texas is not leadership, it is showmanship.

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Sep 15, 2022

This doesn't solve a problem. We have a serious challenge at the Southern border, as we all know, in terms of immigration. What we need are solutions.

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Sep 15, 2022

We don't think -- most of us don't think it is right to treat human people, to treat human beings as cargo, to treat them as props in a political stunt. It's wrong.

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Jan 7, 2022

The filibuster itself is an anti-Democratic or un-Democratic rule.

msnbc.com
Jan 7, 2022

Either we believe in a participatory democracy or we don`t not. It`s as simple as that.

msnbc.com
Dec 29, 2019

I see that American Dream becoming more and more out of reach for more and more people. I think it is a thing worth defending.

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Dec 29, 2019

But if all we do is offer a - a formula for removing him from Office with the implication that we're going to go back to doing what we used to do, we're going to miss this moment, right?

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May 15, 2019

As a basic principle of fairness, all bids should play by the same set of market rules and none should be allowed to benefit from the backing of a foreign government . . . It is cheating, plain and simple, and should not be rewarded using…

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