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From a very early age, I was immersed in politics and surrounded with people who believed in the ability of government to help people

— Elizabeth Brater

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I haven’t been a woman (in office), I’ve been a mayor.

One of my biggest regrets was having had to miss a lot of family time when my children were young, so I feel fortunate now that I’m retired to be able to spend time helping out with my grandchildren

I never really envisioned myself running a city. It just kind of came upon me. It’s almost a force, a sense of responsibility that comes upon you.

I knew nothing about how the Democratic Party worked in Ann Arbor. The next thing I knew, they made me ward chair.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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