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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

Rahm Emanuel

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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Deal Emotional Let Go President Professional Yourself
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
RAHM EMANUEL

Affordable Health Leadership Quality
I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
RAHM EMANUEL

Ability Hurt Myself Place
Under Superintendent Johnson’s leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
RAHM EMANUEL

Community Leadership Police
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?
RAHM EMANUEL

Crisis Judgement Leadership White
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Children Citizenship Myself Treat
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
RAHM EMANUEL

Aspiration Myself Representation Run
Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
RAHM EMANUEL

Crime Fight Partnership Problem
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

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?
RAHM EMANUEL

Comfortable Failure Majority Mindset Terrorism Tough World
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.
RAHM EMANUEL

Existence Honesty Kind Pressure Profession Story
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Citizenship Drugs Home Leaving
I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.
RAHM EMANUEL

Believe Government Investigation Life Myself Privacy Right
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Crisis Opportunity Serious Thinking Wasted Time Yourself
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Community Definition Engagement Hands Pressure Rule Wrong
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
RAHM EMANUEL

Change Ideas People Reform

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