You Don't Have To Be

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.

If You Run For Mayor, People Say You're Being Egotistical. If You Decide You Won't Run For Mayor, People Say You're Being Self-centered And Egotistical.

When I Got Into Politics, It Was A Shock. People Promise All Sorts Of Things And Then Never Deliver.

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've Run For Office, And I've Stood On Street Corners, While People Walked By Me And Didn't Want To Talk To Me, And Did Not Think I Was A Credible Candidate. And Then Four Years Later, I Was Nearly Elected Mayor Of San Francisco, So I Know What It Takes.