Deval Patrick Quotes
It’s really important that civic rituals like the Marathon and other large civic gatherings go on—that we not surrender our public occasions to terror.
Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts (Democrat), Reflecting on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing, Interview, NBC Meet the Press, April 21, 2013
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Some people were arguing that we should cease building tall, large buildings such as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician, civil rights lawyer, author, and businessman who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was first elected in 2006, succeeding Mitt Romney, who chose not to run for reelection to focus on his presidential campaign. He was reelected in 2010. He was the first African American Governor of Massachusetts. A Democrat, Patrick served from 1994 to 1997 as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton. He was briefly a candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.