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

I ran for public office to do something good.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

I had quit the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front in 1978.

I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.

I didn't run for office to make friends.

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.