I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow
There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.
[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. . . . You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.
It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!
I would suggest that people do need to trust someone, to think they care about you. I believe that in my heart.
We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.