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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

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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Different Election Federal Friendship Live Rule
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
When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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Children Parents Police Problem Trust
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
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
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
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
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
RAHM EMANUEL

Enemy Nervous People
There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
RAHM EMANUEL

Hide Run Safety
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
RAHM EMANUEL

Clear Message Work
For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
RAHM EMANUEL

Call Greatness Love Ourselves Proud
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
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Break Call Reminder Wake Up
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.
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Aspiration Myself Representation Run
I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Ability Hurt Myself Place
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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Community Enforcement Law Media Relationship World
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher’s mound or you can be in the catcher’s position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
RAHM EMANUEL

Commitment Deliver Government People Yourself

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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