Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrickis an American politician and civil rights lawyer who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as the United States assistant attorney general for the civil rights division under President Bill Clinton. He was first elected in 2006, succeeding Mitt Romney who chose not to run, and re-elected in 2010. He is the first and currently, the only African-American to have served as governor of Massachusetts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 July 1956
CountryUnited States of America
I frequently feel when I listen to him and to many other elected officials that they are speaking to an audience not in the room.
I really analyzed the project, talked to all the sides and stood on the shore.
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.
If the question is, is there some conflict of interest between where or what my sources are and where my sources are and the job of governing, you'll know that from my financial disclosure forms, and that's entirely appropriate.
Massachusetts invested in me 36 years ago. I lived in Chicago in a two bedroom tenement. I came to Massachusetts when I was 14. I had a scholarship to Milton Academy which to me was the other side of the world.
I certainly understand the instinct to favor someone with whom you make a personal connection. But I also understand, and everyone else does, the import of also doing the fundamentals in terms of a background check.
Hope for the best and work for it.
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
We are not finished, we don't believe, with these indictments. We're looking deeper into this particular Klan activity in South Carolina and we intend to get to the bottom of it.
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.
This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.