Being Quote by Jake Auchincloss

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work…

— Ayanna Pressley

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman…

— James Knowles III

I was the last person to announce I was running for Congress in a big district, and I still won.

— Mike Quigley

I decided to run for Congress because when I was approached as a community leader, I felt that one of the things that spoke…

— Jacky Rosen

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I…

— Lois Frankel

I also served on many government committees.

— Leo Baekeland

I mean, I've spent time in local - in state government. I was a representative. I spent time in city government.

— Marty Walsh

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

— Marc Veasey

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

— Harold Washington

I was the first girl in my high school to be chosen as head girl of both my school and my hoste. I was…

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

I was beaten by police and sat in their precinct holding cell, certain that my future was already decided. And now I will be…

— Eric Adams