When I Got Into Politics,

Running For Office Is Important, And You Don't Really Need More Than To Be Right On The Issues, And To Be Able To Articulate What It Is You Believe. You Don't Need A Certain Background. You Don't Need To Be A Lawyer. You Don't Need To Have Some Professional Degree.

I Think That When We're Talking About Youth Violence, We're Talking About Kids Who Don't Have Opportunities, So They're Engaged In A Certain Degree Of Lawlessness, Because We As A Society Have Failed Them.

I Had Tried Painting, Mostly To Give Myself A Greater Appreciation Of The Craft And To Inform How I Looked At Paintings. That Led To Collaging Some Of The Work I Had Done On Paper, And I Found Myself Mixing In Found Pieces As Well.

Certainly Other Things We Can Do, We Gotta Promote After-school Employment, Give Kids An Opportunity, Raising The Minimum Wage Was Part Of That, We Can't Expect That Young People Are Going To Feel They Can Make A Living Out There For Such Low Wages.

Some Types Of Environmental Restoration Projects Are Well-known; Restored Wetlands, For Instance, Or Coal Mine Reclamation Projects. Recently Though, Larger Dam Removal Projects Have Started, A Number Of Them In Washington State.