I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
RAHM EMANUELGun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
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There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
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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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Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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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.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush’s shovel.
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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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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
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