QOTD (2009-06-26) 26 June 2009

Anne Kronenberg in The Times of Harvey Milk, the original Milk documentary:

It was more than just, you know, a candidate winning, it was the fact that all of these lesbians and gay men throughout San Francisco who felt that they had no voice before now found that they had someone to represent them.

As Jared Polis said, an elected body “can function best when it reflects the broad diversity of our country.”