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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

Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
RAHM EMANUEL

Break Call Reminder Wake Up
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People
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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Country Economy Politics Strong
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Hero Ourselves Sacrifice Thankful Time
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
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
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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Build Crime Effort Fight Friendship Patience Police Training
My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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Attitude Change Frame Freedom Government Myself Operation Race Relationship
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
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
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
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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Community Definition Engagement Hands Pressure Rule Wrong
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
RAHM EMANUEL

Change Ideas People Reform

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