When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
RAHM EMANUELThere’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
More Rahm Emanuel Quotes
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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.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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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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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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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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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.
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I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
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