It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
“I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.”
“Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.”