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.

He went on to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School where he was President of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. A member of the Democratic Party Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton. Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31 1956) is the 71st Governor of Massachusetts.