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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

Rahm Emanuel

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
RAHM EMANUEL

Aspiration Myself Representation Run
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
RAHM EMANUEL

Change Ideas People Reform
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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Department End Ourselves Police Problem Tragedy Weapon
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
RAHM EMANUEL

Crisis Fix Greatness Manual Time War
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
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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Commitment Deliver Government People Yourself
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

History Moments People Reality
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Attitude Change Frame Freedom Government Myself Operation Race Relationship
I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.
RAHM EMANUEL

Believe Government Investigation Life Myself Privacy Right
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Action God Goodness Judgment Live Thinking
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
RAHM EMANUEL

Affordable Health Leadership Quality
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?
RAHM EMANUEL

Crisis Judgement Leadership White
I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
RAHM EMANUEL

Ability Hurt Myself Place

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