One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.
I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
I was a very, very good congressman.
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
I ran for Congress, just once.
Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.
When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.