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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

Rahm Emanuel

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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Accountable Expectation Office Right Safety Willing Wrong
Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
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Journalism Myself Politics System Thinking
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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Affordable Health Leadership Quality
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Build Crime Effort Fight Friendship Patience Police Training
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
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Change Ideas People Reform
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Hate Morning Myself Wake Up
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
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
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
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

Areas Progression Togetherness Violence Weapon
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
RAHM EMANUEL

Call Flame Liberal Myself Oppression
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
I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Ability Hurt Myself Place
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

I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

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