Deval Patrick: “Either we believe in a participatory democracy or we don`t not. It`s as simple as that.”

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

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

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.

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.