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!

Angela Alioto

Categorized in : Believe Talking Race

[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.

Angela Alioto

daughter mother running

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

Angela Alioto

hard writing way

I would suggest that people do need to trust someone, to think they care about you. I believe that in my heart.

Angela Alioto

heart believe thinking

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.

Angela Alioto

government cities needs

The last thing I would ever do though is actively work against another woman.

Angela Alioto

another-woman lasts

I just think women should support women.

Angela Alioto

support should thinking

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

mayors care wanted

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.

Angela Alioto

machines issues fighting

I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.

Angela Alioto

nancy soul order

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

Angela Alioto

limelight controversial mind

When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

Angela Alioto

race dirty thinking

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.

Angela Alioto

lawyer fighting people

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.

Angela Alioto

heart book thinking

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.

Angela Alioto

heart believe book

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.

Angela Alioto

heart baby book

My original book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] was 1,700 pages. The first editor brought it down to 700; there was a lot that didn't make it in. But at last it's finished. I had a hard time signing off on it. And I was worried about it hurting anyone I loved even indirectly. I sat in my room afterwards for two hours wondering what I had done. I wondered about it being judged and if people would understand.

Angela Alioto

hurt heart book

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.

Angela Alioto

knows people thinking