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I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

I ran for public office to do something good.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

I've sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams.