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" A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives. "
Deval Patrick
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" We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama. "
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" If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go. "
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" I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House. "
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" Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it. "
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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. "
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" I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds. "
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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. "
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" I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country. "
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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 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. "
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" For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe. "
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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. "
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" I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons. "
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" I don't want to be a senator. "
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" This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured. "
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" We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate. "
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" Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog. "
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" 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. "
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" I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block. "
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" We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. "
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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. "
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" Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge. "
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" I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular. "
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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. "
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