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There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.

Angela Alioto

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Angela Alioto
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 20
Attorney
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Angela Mia Alioto Veronese
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I just think women should support women.
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I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.
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My progressive ideals are screaming in [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] book what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of debate. You know exactly where I stand, because I put it down in the written word.
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People have always thought I was on something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.
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We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.
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I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.
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The last thing I would ever do though is actively work against another woman.
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I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.
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When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!
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In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!
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I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political machines in a lot of large cities, and everywhere the goals of society get lost.
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My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.
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It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
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I would suggest that people do need to trust someone, to think they care about you. I believe that in my heart.
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