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I'm obviously a huge Bill Weld fan.
Massachusetts is a global community.
I believe I'm a real champion for women.
I think our agenda is very aspirational.
I oppose indexing gas tax hikes to inflation.
Success is measured by what we accomplish together.
I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.
Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci are my political role models.
Balance is a good thing - checks and balances are a good thing.
Nobody wants to see someone's life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.
How well we spend education dollars is just as important as how much we spend.
Competition in politics is just as important as competition in everything else.
I don't think any Patriots fan would want anything other than for Tom Brady to stay.
Former Gov. Weld is that kind of guy who you can't predict what his next move will be.
I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.
I think I've got a track record and an experience brief that I'll put up against anybody's.
There are very few people who work for me who are afraid to tell me what I don't want to hear.
I hope when I am governor and it's all over, I am a governor who underpromised and overdelivered.
I think our Republican brand is an effective one and I think it fits and works here in Massachusetts.
My wife, Lauren, is a remarkably good sport and one of the most adaptable personalities I've ever met.
When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.
Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.
Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.
I do see great opportunity to make reforms to our tax code, making it simpler, fairer and removing corporate loopholes.
Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.
If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do.
Look, there's no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes.
Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.
I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.
Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.
There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.
We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.
This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.
Whether it's the grind of the day to day, or a crisis, we all need to work together because that's what great public service is all about.
There are creative ways to create pathways to sufficiency for families in need. To do so, we need to work together to implement good ideas.
There are a number of issues that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Trump on. I question whether he's got the temperament to serve as president.
Tom Brady has given a tremendous amount of happiness joy and amazement to people all over New England and to fans outside New England as well.
I don't think it's appropriate for people who are citizens of Massachusetts to be waiting in line when folks who aren't citizens access benefits.
When a mom or dad can stop worrying about where they will lay their head each night they can start climbing back on their feet and out of poverty.
When I left Harvard Pilgrim, it had been ranked first in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for customer satisfaction for six years in a row.
Learning how to communicate to big audiences, and how to frame a message in a way that works in a sound-bite world, that for me is very challenging.
I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.
We live in a great state filled with creative, community minded, hard-working, decent people. And what they want from us is opportunity, possibility and hope.
I rode it a lot before I was governor. I rode the commuter rail for a lot of years, I rode the T for a lot of years, and I talk to people all the time who ride both.
There are exceptional schools in many of our most disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout the Commonwealth. Proving they can get it done for kids, no matter what their circumstances.
The most heart-wrenching responsibility I have as Governor is to meet a family at the airport as they stand silently waiting for the military casket of their loved one to come home.
We need to root out the waste and abuse that is rampant in our state agencies. When we do that and grow the economy, we will be able to fund the vital programs and services we need.
I'm a big believer in what I call demand-style workforce development. It looks at what kinds of skills are in demand out there in the workplace. It takes that approach to skill-building.
You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.
I've said a thousand times I want every community to be a place where people believe tomorrow is going to be better than today. I say that not just because I believe it, but because I believe in it.