My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

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.

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!

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.

When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!