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I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Rahm Emanuel

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
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
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
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
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 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
When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
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Greatness Home Myself People
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People
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.
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Call Greatness Love Ourselves Proud
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Call Flame Liberal Myself Oppression
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’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
RAHM EMANUEL

Ability Hurt Myself Place
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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Citizenship Drugs Home Leaving
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
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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Affordable Health Leadership Quality
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

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