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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.