i ran away as if it were the diseased one. at night i hid among the trees along the stretch of road. it was cold that first night alone. i was hungry. i began to think that may be death was a better way after all. i never before felt the black void of abandonment and i knew no one would look for me. as far as my family i ran with the others that morning. everything had been planned. we each left notes for our families hoping we would honor them in the other world i said good night to my family for the last time knows i would no longer be a burden. the only way to honor them to allow them to think i was dead. the following morning in the woods i was awaken by the sound of foot steps. if i moved i would draw attention to where i was. so i lay silent and still. hoping whoever or whatever it was would move on. i stared up through the leaves to a blue sky. it appeared sharp and clear it seemed unreal. when i heard the steps closer i closed my eyes and prayed to the gods. when i opened my eyes i heard breathing and feel the warmth of

i ran and ran away from the beach and all the death and dying. even now i don't remember what i was thinking. the greatest honor i could have given my family was that of my death and i ran from it. i was frightened at not only fulfilling my obligation. not giving code to my parents. there was a voice inside we telling me it was a mistake. at night i hit along theistries on the stretch of road much it was cold that first night alone and i was so hungry. i began to think may be death was a better way after all. >> main stage start in this magazine rack much the fliers for the upcoming events and i used to walk past in every day going to the tv studio. i said, that looks like a fun event i wish i could go to that. i could make a tv show and go to these events. >> main stage is produced through a private/public partnership coordinated by sfg tv. library staff set up the shoes. media services gathers the production details and stages the live event. sfg tv brings the equipment and the crew and the crew is the glue. main stage is taped and editted by in

when i ran for the board of education, i really wanted to represent and make sure i had to be -- had to have a voice in the system. what really surprised me about being on the school board was how much i enjoyed it. i really loved it. i love meeting with families, meeting with teachers, visiting schools, and getting a deeper understanding of how our system works better and doing it with our communities. on that level, it prepared me for a much wider scale,, what it means to work for constituents, and also kind of -- you know, the low interfacing with your colleagues, working with a large bureaucracy to make it happen. it is tough. it is not easy to come before the community organizers -- working with small nonprofits, it was very unfamiliar to me, to slowly move a large glacier. >> are there any other issues that concern you we have not discussed, or any other issues of specific interest you plan to concentrate on? supervisor kim: job growth, economic development. land use. i did to represent one of the most exciting and dynamic districts in the city. i think it is exciting weekend m

i ran for the school board twice before. in many ways, i was already -- i already knew what i had signed myself up for. it was physically grueling, emotionally grueling, really tiring. the one thing i enjoyed was i got to know voters and residents. you do not really get to do that when you run citywide. i enjoyed campaigning more because i had time to meet voters individually, and i loved it. i really enjoyed being out on the field. i spent all lot of time doing it. which i thought was important -- both for me because i get a deeper understanding of what people care about, and what people loved about the district and the city, and i think it was better for our community that i was out there one on one. >> what are the biggest issues for san francisco right now? supervisor kim: economic development. that is the biggest issue for san francisco and the country. our economy is not in the best place that it could be. we really do see that people want to see more jobs for everybody. second, it is probably a myriad of issues. for ou

yeah, that was a fairly early play, my fifth play, and i ran into a bunch of trouble with that one. after the success of the play in new york-- in english, by the way-- they decided to do it in london. and back in those days, there was an organization in london called the royal chamberlain's office, which was there to look over the script of any play to be done in great britain and censor it on the odd assumption that her majesty might want to go to the theater. [laughter] um...her sister went a lot. and so i went to the lord chamberlain's office, where they had read the play and informed me very quietly-- nice guy with a necktie and an english accent and everything... [laughter] said that they had 75 objections to my text. i said, "oh, dear, really?

when i ran for mayor, people said why should i put my money into that part of town?people say that. and i said you should do it for two reasons. number one, you do it because it's the right thing to do. because there are children growing up in this part of the community that you wouldn't want to have your children grow up. they're growing up in environments they shouldn't growth in america or st. petersburg or anywhere and we need to work on that and work towards changing that and some people would buy into that supplies it is a second reason, too. the second reason is better for you because if right now we are pouring a disproportionate amount of money to public safety and social services and to this part of the community and not getting tax revenues from so if we could fit we would have less service and more revenue helps will be better for you so between those two we have great unanimity in the city and focusing on the internet and we could talk at length about midtown and what we did to turn it around but i will tell you that i am a conservative republican and i

i ran for chairman of this party because i am concerned about the future of this country. i know that we have a battle to fight. i know that we have to save america. that is why i ran for chairman of this party. we are the only organization in america that can coordinate our ground operation, our election day operation and phone to phone calls, absentee ballot, we are the only entity in america that can take our operation and the work in a it was a presidential candidate. i believe that all of us in this room have been blessed in different ways. everyone of us. in order for all of us, we have a battle for freedom to fight but in order for us to do that, in order for us to win. in order to make barack obama a 1-term president we need to work together. that is what i am here. i am here to say thank you but i am also here to engage you and invite you into the our nc family. work with us and we will work with you. let's work together to save our country and we

what motivated you to get involved in politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in n francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of a be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i wanted to serve the city and protect all that is so special about san francisco. >> what lessons did you learn after campaigning for supervisor? >> san franciscans are incredibly interested in their city government, local politics, and making sure that we remain the most amazing city in the world. i learned that san franciscans during campaign read everything they are sent in the mail. they love to meet the candidates and engage in conversations with th

i ran. two of the kids were already out. >> reporter: the family of four made it out, but no one could find their two pet cats. by the time the fire was contained, it was inches away from the rooms of abbey blocker, and elizabeth grambler who lived on the top floor. >> everything we own is probably ruined, so -- >> except for what we're wearing now. >> reporter: as bad as it was, it could have been worse. >> i'm glad the kids got out, because i could tell they were upset. they're crying. i don't know where they are. i think they took them somewhere. >> our other roommate wasn't home, and her room got the worst. she's coming back and knows what happened. >> reporter: the fire will make this a memorable mother's day for all the wrong reasons. >> i haven't told the mother at this point. i don't think that's a good mother's day surprise. might hold off until tomorrow, see what happens. >> we just checked, arlington fire officials still don't know what caused the fire. they think it may have star

then i said we'd give me $1750 i can send it kid to college for four years and then i flipped it doubled to double. we ran it through the private foundation and did not use city money to fund them and at the end of the day, we keep statistics everything i do we kept statistics. what was the average graduation rate from -- for low income child in florida? i have never been able to get the statistics but i will bet you it is under 50% but the total is 64% at one point. so our kids, by the time i left office we had had three classes of kids that this started in sixth grade. all three classes graduated at a rate of 93% from the public schools. so if you can do that with the children, that is how you can finance your projects and that if any impact your overall department of your community. we gave out 1000 of those scholarships while i was there. that was one program and is part of that we did a mentoring. we are the corporations come in and we train 1200 corporations to mentor kids in our public schools. it is in santa fe so we grade our schools in florida but we don't give the principals any incentive to do

i ran for chairman of this party because i am concerned about the future of this country. i know that we have a battle to fight. i know that we have to save america, and that is why i ran for chairman of this party. we're the only organization in america that can koran in a ground operation, our election the operation, our phone calls, door-to-door, the ballots, we're the only entity in america that can take our operation and coordinate it with a presidential candidate. i believe that all of us in this room have been blessed in different ways, everyone of us, but in order for us, because you're with me, right, we have a battle for freedom to fight. in order to make barack obama a one-term president, to save our country, we have to work together. i am here to say thank-you, but i am also here to engage you and invite you into the rnc family, to come to work with us. we will come to work with you, but let's work together and save our country, and in the process, we will save our party. thank you, and god bless you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp

i ran for re-election. i served my first term because we changed the charter. it was a long term, it was four years and nine months. and my second term is four years and i was limited to two terms. so i served the complete almost nine years. my term ended last year, 2010. the corruption issue -- if you're talking about governmental corruption, i mean, we had minor employee issues but never -- no significant issues when i took office. now, i think -- i was going to say the newspaper always thinks everybody is corrupt in general we did not have corruption issues within the city. and what was the third question? 250,000. ethnic, it's about 20% african-american. it's got under 8%, let's say, eastern european, also another maybe 3, 4, 5% and we'll find out more with the new census, a good size southeast asian population and hispanic population as well. pretty mixed. >> let's have another round of applause. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an email at booktv.org. or tweet us at booktv@c-span.org. >> cynt

i ran. this is my house right here. i ran. a couple of people ran in the backyard with us. like a good seven of them ran in the back. we went to the corner and saw them laying dead and blood coming out dead. >> reporter: a man and woman died at the scene. the woman is identified as a 28-year-old mother from union city. >> all you can hear is gunshots. boom, boom, boom. when i come this way, i see this person laying on the ground and someone said a girl got hit. >> reporter: a third woman, a 28-year-old woman, also shot twice and in critical condition in the hospital. witnesses say the shooting seemed rampage as a stampede of people tried to escape and hide. >> that's what i did at first. then they started shooting that way. and we did know which way to run. we ran around that way. and it is like god, which way do we go, you know? >> people don't care no more. daytime, nighttime, police not really doing nothing. >> honestly, we lived here to so long, and we are kind of used to hearing gunshots but not seeing somebody on the ground dieing in our face. >> reporter: the oakland

when i ran for that city council seat in l.a. and lost, i thought, at 26, my life was over. i did not see the failure as a friend÷ then. now, imagine if i won that city council seat, i might still be filling potholes on sunset opposed to sitting here talking to larry king. >> can you therefore accept failure today or are you beyond it? tavis: lord no. you have to accept failure. the whole point of the book is that i believe you can fail up. i don't know anyone who hasn't failed their way to the top. i mentioned barack obama, our president, a moment ago. when barack obama ran for the united states senate and walked basically into the senate, people forget that a few years prior he got the brakes beat off of him by a guy named bobby rush who is still a congressman. >> but he had a terrible opponent. >> and people kept dropping out and things work in your favor sometimes but at the same time, obama wouldn't be president if he hadn't been a senator and he wouldn't be a senator if he hadn't been a senator if he didn't run for the house seat and lost it first. >> how do you defin

i ran in and took it off. it was too late. all the phones lit up. me in and said, which direction is it? i did not get fired. tavis: that is one luck comes in. >> i was only 17 years old. tavis: i want to jump ahead. the lesson you said you take away from your live -- three things. 01, you have to have something to love, something to do, and something to hope for. can you take those one at a time? i love that formulation, but what you mean by that? >> i think the most important thing is to have someone to love. if you do not, life does not have as much meeting. i have to have someone to love and care for. we have to of something to hope for and to do, and hopefully be as lucky as i am and do what you love to do, and not too many people find that. the whole idea of learning from your mistakes, and i think you learn so much more from errors and mistakes than from successes. gotavis: how much of your success has to do with the fact that you have found -- have had the opportunity to do something you really love doing all these years? >> yes, and a rose s

i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part of the left on the national standard. i am a good liberal democrat. in the san francisco spectrum, and probably considered more middle of the road. -- i am probably considered more middle-of-the-road. i am very independently comes to the issues. i do not vote the party line. a judge each issue on its merits. that is how i am. >> what do you feel are some of the biggest issues facing san francisco