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The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

Rahm Emanuel

I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Ability Hurt Myself Place
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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Clear Message Work
The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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Appreciation Condition Difficult Police Situation
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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Affordable Health Leadership Quality
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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Believe Establishment Help Important President Record
In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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Accountable Expectation Office Right Safety Willing Wrong
Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
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Decision Police Protection Responsibility
Under Superintendent Johnson’s leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
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Community Leadership Police
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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Different Election Federal Friendship Live Rule
You have a burden going into any campaign when you’re raising money to fund that effort because there’s always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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Burden Desire Money Raise Yourself
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind?
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Comfortable Failure Majority Mindset Terrorism Tough World
To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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Deal Emotional Let Go President Professional Yourself
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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President Serious Violence Weapon
I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
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Blame Country History Myself Negative
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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Crisis Opportunity Serious Thinking Wasted Time Yourself
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that’s how we get judged by our colleagues and that’s how we get judged by the good lord.
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Action God Goodness Judgment Live Thinking

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