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Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

Rahm Emanuel

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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Clear Message Work
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Hero Ourselves Sacrifice Thankful Time
We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.
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Community Definition Engagement Hands Pressure Rule Wrong
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
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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Crisis Judgement Leadership White
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Bill Deliver Forget Lend President Slow
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Hate Morning Myself Wake Up
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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Crisis Fix Greatness Manual Time War
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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Country Economy Politics Strong
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Children Citizenship Myself Treat
I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Ability Hurt Myself Place
Gun 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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Areas Progression Togetherness Violence Weapon
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Change Ideas People Reform
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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History Moments People Reality
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
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

Gun 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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