Politics nowadays is less about ‘red’ versus ‘blue’ than about insiders versus outsiders.
Deval Patrick
The Public Record
Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015
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October 7, 2026
Elections ought to be a competition of ideas, experience and character than about who has the better structural advantage.
— Deval Patrick
The successful candidates are the ones who present themselves as candidates for everyone, and not candidates for just some.
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…
What we've seen from the Governor of Florida and the Governor of Texas is not leadership, it is showmanship.
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.
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.
Either we believe in a participatory democracy or we don`t not. It`s as simple as that.
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.
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?
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…