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I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.