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.

I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.

I would suggest that people do need to trust someone, to think they care about you. I believe that in my heart.

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.

I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.