African american Quote by Ron Dellums

My first campaign for office was my election as North Carolina's first black lieutenant governor in 2020.

— Mark Robinson

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

— Chellie Pingree

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

— Donald Tusk

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made…

— Barbara Mikulski

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

— Sushma Swaraj

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

— Brianna Wu

I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

— Luis Gutierrez

My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.

— Julia Gillard

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I…

— Jerry Pournelle

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and…

— John McCain

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

— Erich Leinsdorf

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

— Donna Edwards