Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
Each year is a new year.
The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
Every election is hectic.
The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.