Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.
You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

