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I've been trying to be the best representative for my school, my family, and the USGA as I possibly could.

I was a very, very good congressman.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

My parents were Democrats.

I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.