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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

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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Decision Police Protection Responsibility
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Change Ideas People Reform
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
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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Graduation Passion People Progression Work
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People
The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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Appreciation Condition Difficult Police Situation
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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Existence Honesty Kind Pressure Profession Story
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that’s how we get judged by our colleagues and that’s how we get judged by the good lord.
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Action God Goodness Judgment Live Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Hate Morning Myself Wake Up
When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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Children Parents Police Problem Trust

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