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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.

Rahm Emanuel

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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Affordable Health Leadership Quality
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
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.
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Commitment Deliver Government People Yourself
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.
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Crime Fight Partnership Problem
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
As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.
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Department End Ourselves Police Problem Tragedy Weapon
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
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
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
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.
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Deal Emotional Let Go President Professional Yourself
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
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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Clear Message Work
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 sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Geography Security Value
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Change Ideas People Reform

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